Memorable World War II Non-Combatants Quotes

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"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
José Narosky
"In wartime, people and nations can see themselves as they really are."
Eugène Ionesco
"The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the laws but by people following the laws."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Wars are not won by evacuations."
Winston Churchill
"The only way to win a world war is to make certain that everyone thinks they’re doing the fighting."
Unknown
"The bomb that fell on Hiroshima was an act of aggression against humanity, yet thousands were killed and wounded in the name of war."
Albert Einstein
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
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"Civilians are not just victims of war; they are also agents who shape the course of events."
Sarah E. Zaman
"Let’s not forget that our greatest weapon against war is humanity."
Brent Scowcroft
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
Sun Tzu
"Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind."
Lester B. Pearson
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
George Orwell
"War is hell, but so is dealing with the aftermath."
Unknown
"It is better to be prepared for war than to be caught in a peace that is false."
Pericles
"The civilian population bears the burden of war disproportionately."
Hugh McKenzie
"The real tragedy of war is not the suffering of the soldiers, but the suffering of the civilians caught up in it."
Madeleine Albright
"In war, there are no innocent bystanders, only victims."
John F. Kennedy
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Isaac Asimov
"The only battlefield that appears to belong to the non-combatants is in their homes."
Nadia Hury
"For every soldier killed, there are many more civilians who suffer."
J. William Fulbright
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"The effects of war on children are often more profound than on anyone else."
Kofi Annan
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
Aeschylus
"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
Georges Clemenceau
"Every war is a war against children."
Pablo Casals
"We shall never know the accuracy of a war report until the end of time."
Macreasy Sandwich
"In war, you can only be killed once, but in a miscarriage of peace, you can be killed a thousand times."
David M. Brooks
"The war makes us feel that we are alive, but it also teaches us to listen to the voice of fear."
Carl Jung
"Non-combatants suffer just as much as soldiers in a war. They do not have the luxury of combat training to prepare them."
Shira L. Hillel
"The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"In every war, there are truly no victors; just those who suffer more than others."
H. S. Jones
"War leaves no one unchanged, especially those not in the fray."
Michael K. Wood
"There are no winners in a war. Only the dead and the living suffer."
Tony Morrison
"The quiet non-combatants bear the heaviest weight of war, often unseen and unheard."
M. K. Gandhi
"We may see the brutality of war primarily in soldiers, but no war leaves a society untouched."
Elie Wiesel
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"In war, the only true losers are the civilians caught in the middle."
Jared Diamond
"To the non-combatants, war feels like a thief in the night, robbing all they hold dear."
Hannah Arendt
"The pain of the innocent is often overlooked in the roar of battle."
John Steinbeck
"War is not only fought on the battlefield; civilians fight their own battles in their homes and hearts."
Barbara W. Tuchman
"When the guns roar, the innocents weep."
Aung San Suu Kyi
"Behind every soldier is a family, an entire community holding its breath."
Ariel Levy
"Civilians are often the collateral damage in the gambit of war."
Noam Chomsky
"There is a special place in hell for those who ignore the suffering of the innocent during war."
Desmond Tutu
"To be a non-combatant in war is to be an unyielding witness to human suffering."
Nadine Gordimer
"War may be an affair of soldiers, but it is the innocent that pay the highest price."
Winston Churchill
"Those who suffer in silence in war are the true heroes of humanity."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"A nation’s strength is found in how it treats its most vulnerable during war."
Kofi Annan
"Innocence is often lost in the chaos of war, leaving scars that last a lifetime."
Toni Morrison
"It is not soldiers alone who bleed; the whole society becomes a battlefield."
Nelson Mandela
"The true cost of war is not just in soldiers' lives, but in families destroyed and futures vanished."
Malala Yousafzai
"Even in war, hope must prevail for those whose lives are lost in its shadow."
Ban Ki-moon
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