In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.

All is war.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

Every lover is a soldier.

War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.

Each man is a little war.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.

I feel always that I am a prisoner.

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”

- Popularized by Bob Marley in the song <i>War</i>