History Quotes / WarIsHell

->I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower''', speech before the Canadian Club, 1946

->I know not with what weapons WorldWarIII will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

-> '''[[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Ma'ah]]:''' You fought the dominion? Ah, the Shapeshifters sent many warriors to [[WarriorHeaven Sto'vo'kor]]. I wish I could've seen it.

-> Never think that war, [[NecessaryEvil no matter how necessary, nor how justified]], is not a crime.

->"[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas.]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall.]] I have lain with [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict holy wars]] and copulated with the [[AtomicHate autumnal fallout]]. [[ThoseWackyNazis I have dug trenches for the refugees]]; [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws]], [[UsefulNotes/CulturalRevolution and starved the masses into faith]]. [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork.]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the ''innocent'', Mandus, [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved]]. [[HumansAreBastards This is your coming century!]] They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis eat. your. hearts!]]''

'''[[TrollingTranslator Ouda]]:''' ''(in the Wachootoo language, subtitled)'' "I want to fight... so go to hell!"

-->--'''Josey Wales''', ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales''

-->--'''Ashley Wilkes''', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''

-->--'''Faramir''', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers''

-->--'''General Ganmark''', ''Literature/BestServedCold''

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion"

->''You weren't there. In the final days of the war. You never saw what was born. But if the Time Lock's broken then everything's coming through, not just the Daleks, but the Skaro Degredations. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Horde of Travesties]]. [[EldritchAbomination The Nightmare Child]]. [[ParadoxPerson The Could-Have-Been-King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres]]. The war turned into '''hell!''' And that's what you opened. Right above the Earth. '''HELL IS DESCENDING!'''''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The End of Time"

-->-- '''Capt. James T. Kirk''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "A Taste of Armageddon"

->'''Hawkeye''': War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.\\
'''Father Mulcahy''': How do you figure, Hawkeye?\\
'''Hawkeye''': Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?\\
'''Father Mulcahy''': Sinners, I believe.\\
'''Hawkeye''': Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

-->-- '''Sammi Cheng''', "[[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo]]" (original song in Cantonese [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nusnaFV4o here]])

-->-- '''Paul Bäumer''', ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' (film)

-->-- ''Manga/SpyXFamily''

->''You weren't there. In the final days of the war. You never saw what was born. But if the Time Lock's broken then everything's coming through, not just the Daleks, but the Skaro Degregations. [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Horde of Travesties]]. [[EldritchAbomination The Nightmare Child]]. [[ParadoxPerson The Could-Have-Been-King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres]]. The war turned into '''hell!''' And that's what you opened. Right above the Earth. '''HELL IS DESCENDING!'''''

-->-- '''Emiya Kiritsugu''', ''LightNovel/FateZero''

-->-- '''Rika "Lisbeth" Shinozaki''', ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''

->'''Handler:''' Have any of you ever killed anyone before? Have you ever been killed before?\\

'''Handler:''' Have you ever had a limb torn off by an artillery shell?\\

'''Handler:''' Have you ever heard the sound of bones shattering? Have you ever smelled the reek of rotting flesh?\\

'''Handler:''' Have you ever found the crushed bodies of your parents and siblings in a pile of rubble that used to be your home? Have you ever discovered a blown-off piece of your lover stuck to a wall? Have you ever been so hungry you tried to eat tree bark? Have you ever [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty stewed human flesh in a pot]]? Have you ever [[{{Demonization}} convinced yourself your enemy was sub-human so you could slaughter them like animals]]? [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Have you ever been so haunted by shame and regret afterward that you cried until you puked]]? Have you ever had friends who did the same, [[DrivenToSuicide and took their own lives]]?\\
''[Handler presses a gun against the terrorist's forehead]''\\

'''Handler:''' Did you learn ''nothing'' about war at your university?

-->-- '''Piotr Kowalski''', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfAThousandSuns''

-->-- '''Gunmaster Duncan''' on total war, ''VideoGame/LandOfWarTheBeginning''

-->-- '''Gunmaster Duncan''' on total war, ''VideoGame/LegacyOfAThousandSuns''

-->-- '''Tanya Degurechaff''', paraphrasing Robert E. Lee ''LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil''

->''In peace, sons bury their fathers. [[WarIsHell In war, fathers bury sons]].''

Pro patria mori.''[[note]]Lat:"It is sweet and honourable to die for one's country"[[/note]]

->''"The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he comes from, and if he really was evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home, or he would not rather have stayed there... in peace? War will make corpses of us all."''

-->-- '''Paul Bäumer''', ''Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' (film)

->Up at the front you're alive or you're dead, and that's all! You can't fool anybody about that very long. Up there we know we're lost and done for whether we're dead or alive. Three years we've had of it... four years. Every day a year and every night a century. Our bodies are earth and our thoughts are clay, and we sleep and eat with death.
-->-- '''Paul Bäumer''', ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' (film)

-->-- '''Paul Baumer/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'' (film)

->Up at the front you're alive or you're dead, and that's all! You can't fool anybody about that very long. Up there we know we're lost and done for whether we're dead or alive. Three years we've had of it... four years. Every day a year and every night a century. Our bodies are earth and our thoughts are clay, and we sleep and eat with death.