The old people declare war, and the young go to die.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

War is good for the untalented. The world is always more profitable for the talented.

The world is but a dream of war.

Only a few, whose vile well-being depends on the people's grief, make wars.

To send people to war untrained is to betray them.

We will get into a fight - we will fail the next, and future years. Who needs it? Whose hands are itchy? Who itch - scratch elsewhere!

As long as the nude is seen in war, it will always have a certain attraction. When you learn to see vulgarity in it, it will not attract anyone.

Many go to war because they don't want to be heroes.

The war is over only when the last soldier is buried.

Phrases of wise people about war

War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language.

Why are you killing me? - How for what? Friend, why do you live on the other side of the river! If you lived on this, I really would have committed a wrong deed, villainy, if I had killed you. But you live on the other side, which means that my cause is just, and I accomplished a feat!

Prominent phrases of wise people about the war

The peasant cultivates the fields, the worker enriches the cities, the thinkers reflect, the industry creates amazing things, the genius performs miracles... and all this perishes in the terrifying international exhibition called the battlefield!

War will be repeated as long as it is not decided by those who die on the battlefields.

War cannot be just, because it is impossible to fight justly, even if you are fighting for justice.

Wars are like litigation, where legal costs exceed the disputed amount.

No need for war, no need. Let's better work, think, search. The only true glory is the glory of labor. A warrior is the destiny of the barbarians.

War is a series of catastrophes leading to victory.

From a glass of champagne, the mood rises, fantasy, a sense of humor are played out; however, the whole bottle makes me dizzy, my eyes darken, my legs give way. War works in much the same way. To really get a taste of both, the best thing to do is tasting.

War equally imposes tribute on both men and women, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others.

Just as peace is the goal of war, idleness is the ultimate goal of employment.

Peace is the interval between two wars.

He could predict wars and; however, it was not difficult: they are always fighting somewhere and almost always starving somewhere.

Ahovye phrases of wise people about the war

Moderation in war is unforgivable stupidity.

If you want to win the war, you must remember the old truth: the slower you go, the further you will be.

Never lie so much as during the war, after the hunt and before the election.

What a beautiful moon today! Yes, but if you had seen her before the war.

If the outcome of a war could be foreseen, all wars would cease.

The first panacea for a poorly governed country is currency inflation, the second is war; both bring temporary prosperity, both bring final destruction.

War is too serious a matter to be left to the military.

The war will last as long as people have the stupidity to be surprised and help those who kill them by the thousands.

Without war, no nation is freed from any foreign yoke.

It is much easier to win a war than a peace.

There is more valor in killing wars with words than people with iron.

Only that war is useful, which is undertaken for, for a higher and great principle, and not for material interest, not for a greedy seizure.

War is made up of unforeseen events.

War is war, and dinner must be on schedule.

Politics is as exciting as war. But more dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, in politics many times.

Those who start a war themselves fall into their networks.

Careless phrases of wise people about the war

For more than one century, attempts have been made to fix the world with the help of explosives.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

I do not believe that Russia wants war. She wants the fruits of war.

No matter how terrible the war, it nevertheless reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest hereditary enemy - death.

Peace has as many victories as war, but far fewer monuments.

Why not judge governments for every declaration of war? If the peoples understood this, if they did not allow themselves to be killed without any reason, if they used weapons to turn them against those who gave them to be beaten - on this day the war would die.

Woe to that statesman who does not bother to find a basis for war, which will still retain its significance after the war.

When nations fight among themselves, it is called war.

Anyone who has not survived a single war will never know what a wonderful pre-war time he lived in.

Either humanity will end war, or war will end humanity.

War is one of the greatest blasphemy against man and nature.

Money is the artery of war.

We are at war. We fight for peace. We fight hunger. We can't live without a fight. We fight, we fight, we fight: with weapons, with words, with money. But everything remains the same: the world is not getting better.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue that springs from firmness of spirit.

Good-natured phrases of wise people about the war

In love, as in war, woe to the vanquished!

There is no greater crime than an unnecessary war.

War turns people born to live into wild beasts.

Before the battle every plan is good, after the battle every plan is bad.

How is the world governed and wars flared up? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe their own lies when they read them in the papers.

Even a victorious war is an evil that must be prevented by the wisdom of the nations.

He who wages war with everyone is hardly at peace with himself.

Love is like war: easy to start but very difficult to end.

The only condition of people before the formation of society was war, and not only war in its ordinary form, but the war of all - against all.

A victorious army rarely rebels.

In a peaceful environment, a warlike person attacks himself.

Anyone who is in state power is obliged to avoid war, just as the captain of a ship avoids wreckage.

War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

The collection includes quotes about war and bloodshed:

• I am sure that the mistakes of the previous war will not be repeated; we will probably make another series of mistakes. Winston Churchill
• Combat experience comes only after the need for it has disappeared. Murphy's Army Laws
• I consider war disgusting, but even more disgusting to me are those who sing of it without participating in it. Romain Rolland
• There are no winners in a war, only losers. Neville Chamberlain
• The youth who died in the war are like spring taken out of the year. Pericles
• In peacetime, sons bury their fathers; in wartime, fathers bury their sons. Francis Bacon

• Feelings of justice, decency, fidelity, based on the recognition of equality of rights, lose their strength in civil wars, when each side looks at the other as a criminal and arrogates to itself the right to judge him. Friedrich Schiller
• In the course of every arms race, there finally comes a psychological moment when war seems to be the only means of liberation from the unbearable expectation of catastrophe. Alexander Kerensky
• What war crimes are, only the victors decide. G. Wille
• In every war, everyone attributes luck to himself, and the blame for misfortunes is laid on one. Tacitus
• Worse than to fight together with allies, there can be only one thing: to fight without allies. W. Churchill
• War is the greatest calamity that can cause suffering to mankind; it destroys religion, states, families. Any disaster is preferable to her. Martin Luther
• It's good to hear about the war, but God forbid to see it. Russian proverbs
• War is evil; it is carried on with the help of great injustices and violence, but there are certain laws for honest people even in war. It is impossible to pursue victory if the benefits that it gives are acquired through baseness and crime. A great commander should wage war, relying on his own courage, and not on treachery on the part of others. Plutarch
• The clouds of the sun cannot hide, the world cannot be defeated by war. Russian proverbs
• War is not a continuation of politics, but the defeat of politics. Hans von Seeckt, Chief of the Reichswehr
• Anyone who has not survived a single war will never know what a wonderful pre-war time he lived in. Gabriel Laub
• 
  War is a crime against humanity, where there are executors and customers of the crime. Konstantin Kushner
• Patience and humility are needed for both peace and war. John of Damascus
• War is a wolf and it can come to your door too. Bernard Show
• As soon as good, honest, disinterested people unite and start a war in the name of a good cause, soon the worst of the villains will certainly be their commander-in-chief. This is such a thing - war, do not expect good from it. Boris Akunin
• War is a kind of action, thanks to which people who do not know each other kill each other for the glory and benefit of people who know each other and do not kill each other. P. Valerie
• Today it is more difficult to officially sentence a single person to death at the stake than to unleash a world war. Elias Canetti
• War is mostly a catalog of blunders. Winston Churchill
• The fastest way to win the war against poverty is to stop pretending that we are rich.
• War is too serious a matter to be left to the generals. D. Kennedy
• The most humane thing you can do in a war. - get it done quickly. Helmut von Molypke
• War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language. Ambrose Bierce
• Even cowards can unleash a war, but it is up to the brave to fight its dangers. Tacitus
• War will be repeated as long as it is not decided by those who die on the battlefields. Henri Barbusse
• The prologue of the 20th century is a gunpowder factory. Epilogue - the barracks of the Red Cross. Vasily Klyuchevsky
• War equally taxes both men and women, but only takes blood from some, tears from others. William Thackeray
• After the massacre - victory; after victory - division; and then there are more winners than there were those who fought. Such is the custom of every war. Honore de Balzac
• War is war, and dinner is on schedule. Russian proverbs
• Just as the greatest physical evil is death, so the greatest moral evil is, of course, war. Voltaire
• War makes the victor stupid, the vanquished vicious. F. Nietzsche
• Truth becomes the first victim of war. X. Johnson
• War is not only a shock, but also a spiritual test and a spiritual judgment. Ivan Ilyin
• No one fights in a war with such zeal as in a war for one's own country. Demosthenes
• War is a process that ruins those who win it. P. Buast
• The country that needs to be conquered constantly has not been conquered. Edmund Burke
• War uses the best qualities of a person to do the worst. E. Mackenzie
• It is as useful for a people to be afraid of war as it is for an individual to be afraid of death. Jules Renard
• War does not heal people, it only cripples them. Russian proverbs
• The enemy has peace on his tongue, but war in his heart. Russian proverbs
• War does not solve any problems; victory is just as destructive as defeat. Agatha Christie
• In war, everyone is equal in the probability of death. Georgy Alexandrov
• War feeds on money, war rejoices in blood - so it was before us. Danilo Tuptalo
• We do not want war, but we are ready for war. Russian proverbs
• War spoils the army. Friedrich Wilhelm, King of Prussia
• People with great enthusiasm make the decision to fight, than they actually wage war, and change their mood with a change in military happiness. Thucydides
• War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Jannet Rankin
• Anyone who isn't completely confused doesn't really understand what's going on. Ed Murrow, about the Vietnam War
• War is a denial of truth and humanity. It's not just about killing people, because a person must die one way or another, but about the conscious and persistent spread of hatred and lies, which are gradually instilled in people. Jawaharlal Nehru
• Either humanity will end war, or war will end humanity. D. Kennedy
• Do not joke with war and fire. Russian proverbs
• 
  Whoever wants to fight has no reason to go to war. Russian proverbs
• There will be wars as long as at least one person can earn on them. Bertolt Brecht
• Anyone who has not been to the war has no right to talk about it. Marlene Dietrich
• Wars are started when they want, but they end when they can. J. Machiavelli
• To whom is war, and to whom is mother dear. Russian proverbs
• Wars are like litigation, where legal costs exceed the disputed amount. Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues
• When the war ends, heroes come out of hiding. Y. Bulatovich
• All warlike peoples are prone to idleness and love danger more than hard work. Roger Bacon
• Terrible as war is, it nevertheless reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest hereditary enemy - death. Heinrich Heine
• All mistakes in other areas can be corrected somehow, but mistakes in war are incorrigible, because they are punished immediately. Niccolo Machiavelli
• Each state is ready to welcome the general disarmament of all other states.
• Anyone who is in state power is obliged to avoid war, just as the captain of a ship avoids shipwreck. Guy de Maupassant
• The art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds except what has been calculated and thought out. Napoleon
• Winning the battle is not the point. The main thing is not to be poisoned at the feast of the winners! E. Lets
• And I would go to war, but it's a pity to leave my wife. Russian proverbs
• Where there is war, there is robbery. Russian proverbs
• Not a single war has yet begun without hysterical cries for peace. Stas Yankovsky
• Preparedness for war is one of the most effective means of maintaining peace. D. Washington
• If our soldiers understood why we are fighting, it would be impossible to wage a single war. Frederick the Great

• For an ordinary army, not to win is to fail. For the guerrilla army not to be defeated means to win. Henry Kissinger
• To stand together for peace - there will be no war. Russian proverbs
• For those who fought, the war never ends. C. Malaparte
• There are just wars, but there are no just troops. André Malraux
• Woe to that statesman who does not bother to find a basis for war, which will still retain its significance after the war. Otto von Bismarck
• The conqueror is a madman who starts by ruining his subjects in order to have the pleasure of ruining other people's subjects. P. Buast
• It is as impossible to win a war as it is impossible to win an earthquake. Jannet Rankin
• Sometimes one ruler attacks another out of fear that he will not attack him. Sometimes they start a war because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak, sometimes our neighbors want what we have, or have what we lack. Then the war begins and continues until they capture what they need or give what we need. Jonathan Swift
• Yesterday's glory in the war does not live. Russian proverbs
• History proves, unfortunately, that war is, in a certain sense, the normal state of mankind; that the blood of men must be shed all over the earth, and that peace is but a respite for any nation. Joseph de Maistre
• Every war is from an adversary. Russian proverbs
• Every combat veteran knows that much of war consists of unbearable boredom, punctuated by moments of complete and utter horror. Harry Summers Jr.
• All wars in the world are civil wars: man sheds the blood of man. François Fénelon
• As soon as war becomes a reality, any opinion that does not take it into account begins to sound wrong. A. Camus
• Here is the proof that we really don't want war: we fight without declaring war. Karel Capek
• Wars start in people's minds. From the preamble to the UNESCO Constitution
• Whoever has not been to the war, he did not drink water with a fit (fit). Russian proverbs
• Wars are contagious. Franklin Roosevelt
• Who uninvitedly climbs to us, he will get in the teeth. Russian proverbs
• Wars are a glorified atrocity. Seneca
• It is easy to hear about the war, but it is hard (terrible) to see it. Russian proverbs
• War, which has always been a crime against humanity, is now also madness. John Bernal
• The best wars in the history of mankind are those that mankind managed to avoid. Baurzhan Toyshibekov
• War is a harsh school (check): some are young, others are old. Russian proverbs
• People think that if they call the crime of murder "war", then murder will cease to be murder, a crime. Lev Tolstoy
• War turns into wild beasts people born to live as brothers. Voltaire
• He fought a lot, but he lost everything. Russian proverbs
• War creates more bandits than it kills.
• We find in the nature of man three main causes of war: first, rivalry; secondly, distrust; thirdly, the thirst for fame. Thomas Hobbes
• War feeds on money and revels in blood. Russian proverbs
• In war, no one makes mistakes twice. Lamah
• War may have good results among savages, facilitating the selection of the strongest and most steadfast, but on civilized peoples its influence is usually the most pernicious: it leads to the mutual extermination of the best and most brave. Alfred Fulier
• Hope for the world, but look both ways. Russian proverbs
• War loves blood. Russian proverbs
• Preventing a war is harder than winning a war. Konstantin Kushner
• The war is over when the last soldier is buried. Alexander Suvorov
• There is no infamy that would not be tolerated by war, there is no crime that would not be justified by it. Maksim Gorky
• War is one of the greatest blasphemy against man and nature. Vladimir Mayakovsky
• The vanquished are responsible for the war. Arkady Davidovich
• War for peoples is tears and blood, these are widows and homeless people, this is a scattered nest, lost youth and offended old age ... Ilya Ehrenburg
• Those who lift the sword from the sword will perish. Russian proverbs
• War has always been a direct means for the external and an indirect means for the internal unification of mankind. Reason forbids throwing this weapon while it is needed, but conscience obliges us to try so that it is no longer needed. Vladimir Solovyov
• The elderly declare war, but the young have to fight and die. G. Hoover
• War war. - cf. Soviet slogan "Peace to the world!" Russian proverbs
• Why not judge governments for every declaration of war? If the peoples understood this, if they did not allow themselves to be killed without any reason, if they used weapons to turn them against those who gave them to be beaten, on this day the war would die. Guy de Maupassant

The brightest

The summer day of the year

The longest day on earth

Everything breathed such silence,

That the whole earth was still asleep, it seemed.

Who knew that between peace and war

There are only five minutes left. (S.Schipachev)

twenty second

The children were sleeping

Ripe apples in the garden.

We remember

Let's remember it again

We remember this night and at this hour the explosion,

That the sun extinguished in pitch rumble,

Oozing through the inept bandages,

The blood of the people turned red that June. (M. Lukonin. Reminder

The boy is a latch,

But at times it added to him

War so many years

(A.Bragin)

"Fires blaze in Russia

And again unkissed lips

The wounded boy took a bite. (Yu. Drunina. I don’t know where I studied foulness)

Children and war - there is no more terrible convergence of opposite things into the world. (A.T. Tvardovsky)

“We fought, but at the same time we played a little war, because we were all, almost, all yesterday's boys. (A. Gepatulin)

War walks in Russia

And we are so young (D. Samoilov)

But the forty-first wind blew -

Now we have become adults. (A. Tanich)

"How it was! As coincidentally - war, trouble, dream and youth. (D. Samoilov)

I believe that the youth made the main sacrifice in the war. How many wonderful young people we have lost. How many mothers did not wait for children from the war! (Marshal G. Zhukov)

"And in a green tunic

In a cap with a crane star,

Not knowing a woman, unintelligent,

Now forever young. (V. Gurnyansky. In the forests of Smolensk)

Let the living remember and let the generations know

this harsh truth of the soldiers, taken with battle.

And your crutches, and a mortal wound through,

and graves over the Volga, where thousands of young people lie ..

S. P. Gudzenko, "My generation"

She brought me back to my distant childhood,

Killed at 45 in the war. (L. Chashechnikov)

Between the dead, mother quietly walks

And with severe patient grief! (L. Tatyanicheva)

And walks the earth

Barefoot Memory -

Little woman (V. Isaev)

Victory Day! He froze on the ships

He raised an eternal flame over the cup

It rumbles and beats in people's hearts,

Scorches us with a song, rings in verses,

Blazes with posters, flowers. (E.Asadov)

Victory! Victory!

In the name of the motherland - victory!

Eternity puts them at the head ...

In the name of the living - victory

In the name of the future - victory!

(R. Rozhdestvensky)

Not all soldiers will meet the day of victory

Not everyone can come to the parade

Soldiers are mortal:

Feats are immortal

The courage of the soldiers does not die. (B. Serman)

Hills chilled on guard

Standing under the sky low - carcass

And from the Russian landscape

Obelisks are inseparable (V. Sidorov)

"I am equal among equals with you

I became a stone, but I live

You, who gave me centuries,

Don't forget for an hour

That I look at you from a stone. (M.Maksimov)

“The second front was opened by a Russian woman. In 1941, when she took on all this male, backbreaking work, when the front, the army, the war leaned on her with their might. Well, I'm not talking about the feat of the same Russian woman after the war, the hearth is homely, warmly homely, the song - all this was warm. And a new generation grew up primarily around women. This must never be forgotten. And, of course, a Russian woman, a Russian woman, is worthier than the greatest monuments.” (F. Abramov)

We are soldiers

And this is our glory

Those who died and returned

We ourselves must tell by right

About our generation of soldiers. (N. Starshinov)

Into battle, forward, into pitch fire

He comes, saint and sinner

Russian miracle man.

("Vasily Terkin" Tvardovsky)

The fight is holy and right

Mortal combat is not for glory

For life on earth.

("Vasily Terkin" Tvardovsky)

Farewell! Over time together

Rolling over the last wave

We leave on the path of honor

Dear those who came from the war

We are leaving ... Over our daily bread -

Great Victory crown

Let's go salute the living

Breaking our hearts.

“I am an unidentified soldier.

I am a private

I do not fly with a bullet mark

I'm ice bloody in January.

I am firmly soldered into this ice -

I’m in it like a fly in January ... ”(Yu. Levitansky. Well, what if I was there.)

Let's remember everyone by name

remember with grief,

this is not necessary for the dead,

it is necessary - alive!

R. Rozhdestvensky

Soldiers in the trenches

And fell in mortal combat

But they did not spare their lives

For your bitter land.

R. Rozhdestvensky

Well, wait and wait. Freeze. Numb.

Lock all feelings at once on the latch.

This is where the nightingale appeared

Slowly and languidly snapping…

Like time, sand flowed through the trenches.

The roots stretched to the water at the cliff,

And the lily of the valley, rising on a toe,

I looked into the funnel from the gap. (M. Dudin. Nightingales)

Spring has also come to us.

The soldiers were not up to sleep -

Not because the guns hit.

And because they sing again

Forgetting that there are fights going on here,

Crazy nightingales sing. (A. Fatyanov "Nightingales")

They say posthumously

Our bodies will become earth.

I'm ready to believe

In this simple rumor.

Let me become a particle

Land reclaimed in battle

The land on which

Now I live with all my heart. (R. Gamzatov)

And I, until death is extinguished

In my eyes the last star -

I am your soldier, waiting for your orders.

Lead me, Great Russia,

For labor. To death, to a feat - I'm going! (N. Gribachev)

What to do. Memory is to blame.

Like a bayonet she scratched,

That on such a day a long time ago

(Do not get rid of this date from the heart!)

The war rose in black smoke. (E.Asadov)

For the rest of my life

We have enough deeds and glory,

Victory under the bloody enemy

For the rest of my life.

(from song)

O my generation! We walked with you

For the happiness of the earth through the smoke and troubles,

Scarlet dawn spots on the dry land

Like a memory of the heavy price of victory. (E.Asadov)

How clay smells in the trenches,

I walked from the Volga itself

to Berlin

soldier

Motherland (V. Poltoratsky)

Do not forget, do not forget us, soldiers,

Those who were buried by the war ...

Dates are still being answered

To their immortal names (I. Rzhavsky)

The brave strives for victory,

Bold road ahead.

A bold bullet is afraid

Does not take a bold bayonet. A. A. Surkov, "Song of the Brave"

And silence surrounds us with you

The stronger and more clearly audible

Her peals, raising the earth. (V. Sidorov)

They lay down on the battlefield

Those who have barely begun to live

And the sky was blue

There was green grass (Casanova)

Glory will not cease these days, it will never fade. (S. Alimov)

Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten. (O. Bergholz)

Glory to the fighters who stood up for the truth

The banner of freedom was carried high. (S. Mikhalkov)

He did not spare himself in battle,

And saved the Motherland. (M.Isakovsky)

The war is over, the suffering is over

But pain calls out to people:

Come on people never

Let's not forget about this. (A. Tvardovsky)

I was born unexpectedly

Born uninvited

Into a hellish conflagration

In fire crumble (N. Ryabinina)

I don't need to worry

So that that war is not forgotten,

After all, this memory is our conscience,

She is like a force, we need Y. Voronov

And in the memory of the past comes to life,

And war echoes

(A. Pyanov Victorious Spring)

“We drank the cup of sorrow to the bottom ...” (V. Suslov)

"War is over. But with a singed song

She is still circling over every house ... ”(M. Nozhkin)

And again, memory haunts us. (M. Nozhkin)

Vladimir Mayakovsky. He is not the only one who spoke extremely negatively about this terrible phenomenon of human existence.

Statements about the war of Russian writers in the overwhelming majority are similar to this. We will talk about these quotes briefly in the proposed article.

Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy is best known for his anti-militarist views. His war quotes, sayings and phrases about war are known all over the world, and it is not so easy to choose the most important of them. Perhaps the most significant of them is the following: "People who ... recognize war not only as inevitable, but also useful and ... desirable - these people are terrible in their moral perversity."

Indeed, the great Russian writer more than once went extremely hard through this merciless activity of the human race in its madness. And this is not surprising, the champion of peace and the education of society, the great moralist simply could not think differently. For that alone, he deserves credit.

Bitter

Statements about the war of Russian writers should be continued with a famous quote from Maxim Gorky: "I know that war is a complete atrocity and that people who are not guilty of anything to each other exterminate each other." Naturally, a person who has gone through the war, who knows firsthand about it, has a softer position. However, even here we see a sharp rejection of this misanthropic occupation, which claimed the lives of many tens of millions of people in the twentieth century alone. And although he did not happen to see the most terrible test of the war, the one that was unleashed by Hitler, he nevertheless made a great contribution to the spread of peace.

Some militaristic statements

Nevertheless, statements about the war by Russian writers of a rather militaristic nature come across. For example, a quote from Sergei Yesenin: "What the mouth could not say in words, let pistols tell with bullets." As if Mars, the one that wars, wrote these hostile lines with the hand of the famous romantic poet.

There are statements about the war by Russian writers who are directly related to the cause of the military leadership. These include, for example, Alexander Suvorov. He became one of the most famous war theorists of all time. For the most part, his statements justify the conduct of this inhuman torture of people with which he was associated. As an example of the warlike mentality of the commander, one can cite his famous phrase: "Beat the enemy, not sparing ... him." However, he also comes across certain anti-militarist sentiments. As in the following quote: "Without virtue there is no glory and honor." There are many other sayings left after

Conclusion

Aphorisms, quotes and statements of Russian writers can be listed for a very long time, even when it comes to such a phenomenon as war. It is important to understand the basic meaning conveyed by most of those who have written about this dangerous occupation. And he is very simple. If humanity does not stop waving a club, the strength of which is now measured in megatons of TNT, then very soon there will simply be no place on this planet to continue life, raise children, collect wheat, build houses. Apparently, this is why many Russian writers write so much and so passionately about the danger of war, about the fact that any conflict can be resolved through negotiations. Let's hope that new generations of people will hear these words of Tolstoy, Gorky and others and think seriously before starting a bloody slaughter called "war".

Quotes about the Great Patriotic War

Dear Colleagues!

In less than a month we will celebrate one of the main holidays of our country - MAY 9th. It is still one of the spiritual bonds for society and for the country as a whole.

I know from my own experience how difficult it is sometimes to quickly find the right quote for an exhibition or speech or message. I bring to your attention a selection of quotes about the Great Patriotic War, which includes both poetic and prose quotes. I hope they will help you in preparing exhibitions and events for the holiday date - MAY 9th. Previously, there was a similar selection of quotes about the Battle of Stalingrad.

No government could have resisted such terrible cruel wounds that Hitler inflicted on Russia. But Soviet Russia not only withstood and recovered from these wounds, but also dealt a blow to the German army with such power that no other army in the world could inflict on it ...

Winston Churchill

In the first months of the war, German soldiers in their helmets, green overcoats, with their machine guns, tanks, dominance in the sky inspired fear. They seemed irresistible. The retreat was largely due to this feeling. They had the superiority of weapons, but also the halo of a professional warrior. We, the militias, looked pathetic: blue cavalry breeches, instead of boots - boots and windings. The overcoat is not tall, there is a cap on the head ...

Three weeks passed, a month, and everything began to change. We saw that our shells and bullets were also destroying the enemy, and that the wounded Germans were also screaming and dying. Finally we saw the Germans retreat. There were such first private, small fights when they fled. It was a discovery. We learned from the prisoners that, it turns out, we - the militia, in our ridiculous riding breeches, also inspired fear. The steadfastness of the militias, their fury stopped the rapid advance on the Luga line. The German units are stuck here. The depression from the first staggering blows was gone. We are no longer afraid.

During the blockade, military prowess equalized. Our soldiers, hungry, poorly provided with shells, held their positions for all 900 days, against a well-fed, well-armed enemy, by virtue of their superior spirit.

Daniil Granin

Do we have the right to forget what peace and freedom cost us? Wouldn't such oblivion be a betrayal before the memory of fallen soldiers, before the grief of inconsolable mothers, lonely widows, orphaned children? This must not be forgotten in the name of our stubborn struggle for peace, which is unthinkable without the bitter memory of the disasters of the past war.

S.S. Smirnov "Brest Fortress"

It is known that the British lose every battle except the last one. This saying speaks of the stability of the country. We were also losing the war, according to all calculations, the Germans had to fulfill the Barbarossa plan, reach the Urals. In military terms, they were stronger than us in all respects. It's really unclear why they lost. We won because we fought against the invaders, our war was a just war, from the very first day we knew that we would win. Moral superiority was more important than aviation superiority.

Daniil Granin

I will take the opportunity to repeat tomorrow in the House of Commons what I said earlier, that it is the Russian army that has gutted the German war machine and is currently holding back an incomparably greater part of the enemy forces on its front.

letter to I. Stalin on September 27, 1944, "Correspondence of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR with the Presidents of the United States and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." M., 1967. T. 1. S. 260

Winston Churchill

On the European front, the most important event of the past year was without a doubt the crushing counter-offensive of the great Russian army against the powerful German grouping. Russian troops have destroyed - and continue to destroy - more manpower, aircraft, tanks and guns of our common enemy than all the rest of the United Nations put together.

Franklin Roosevelt

Under the leadership of Marshal Joseph Stalin, the Russian people showed such an example of love for the motherland, firmness of spirit and self-sacrifice that the world has not yet known. After the war, our country will always be happy to maintain relations of good neighborliness and sincere friendship with Russia, whose people, saving themselves, help to save the whole world from the Nazi threat.

Franklin Roosevelt

In all my work, the most precious thing is what is dedicated to our Victory. In the 70s, the director Carmen invited me to voice the 20-episode documentary film "The Great Patriotic War", where for the first time the true figures of our terrible losses were heard. I remember a close-up of people of different ages who went to the front from besieged Leningrad, and the words: “Look at these faces. Remember them. None of these people will come back alive…” I started voicing and… couldn’t hold back my tears. I had to stop. Only after a week I learned to cope with a lump in my throat and rising tears.

Vasily Lanovoy

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I know it's not my fault

The fact that others did not come from the war,

The fact that they - who is older, who is younger -

Stayed there, and it's not about the same thing,

That I could, but could not save, -

It's not about that, but still, still, still ...

A. T. Tvardovsky

Crossing, crossing!

The guns are firing in pitch darkness.

The fight is holy and right.

Mortal combat is not for glory,

For life on earth.

A. T. Tvardovsky

Yes, you can survive in the heat, in a thunderstorm, in frost,

Yes, you can be hungry and cold

Go to death ... But these three birches

You can't give it to anyone while you're alive.

K. M. Simonov

Only the nation that honors its heroes can be considered great. (Rokossovsky)

Victory! This is the greatest happiness for a soldier - the realization that you helped your people defeat the enemy, defend the freedom of the Motherland, restore peace to it. The consciousness that you have fulfilled your duty as a soldier, a heavy and noble duty, higher than which there is nothing on earth!

Rokossovsky

Not a single country, not a single people of the anti-Hitler coalition suffered such heavy losses as the Soviet Union, and no one exerted so much strength to defeat the enemy that threatened all of humanity. Not a single bomb was dropped on American soil.

G. K. Zhukov

Time has no power over the greatness of everything that we experienced during the war. And the people, which once survived great trials, will continue to draw strength from this victory.

G. K. Zhukov

After Stalingrad, the army became like a hardened blade, capable of crushing any force. The battle on the Kursk salient confirmed this perfectly.

G. K. Zhukov

The war demanded many sacrifices from all the peoples of the world. I am happy that I was born a Russian person. And he shared with his people in the last war the bitterness of many losses and the happiness of Victory.

Zhukov

The greatness of the feat near Moscow lies in the fact that we did not outnumber the Germans by force ... Now it's hard to believe, but at the end of the fighting near Moscow, the rate of shells was set: one or two shots per gun per day.

G. K. Zhukov

I believe that the youth made the main sacrifice in the war. How many wonderful young people we have lost. How many mothers did not wait for children from the war!

Marshal G. Zhukov

The hero is the one who died smartly and bravely, bringing the hour of victory closer. But twice the hero is the one who managed to defeat the enemy and survived. (V. I. Chuikov)

And Russia - dear mother -

Honor all will give in full.

Another fight, another time

Life is one and death is one.

A. T. Tvardovsky

The truth is that, despite the hardest trials, we won. (A. Chakovsky)

Like a child born in labors, -

There will be twice the road

Us the land liberated

From a sworn enemy. (S. Ya. Marshak)

Let the living remember

and let generations know

This harsh truth of the soldiers, taken with battle.

And your crutches, and a mortal wound through

And graves over the Volga,

Where thousands of young lie...

S. Gudzenko

People!

As long as hearts are beating

Remember!

At what price is happiness won, -

Please remember!

R. Rozhdestvensky

forties fatal,

Lead, gunpowder...

War walks across Russia...

D. Samoilov

In Europe, journalists said to my face: “What are you doing in Russia with your Victory? We already forgot." I asked them: “How many days did your countries resist Hitler?” They are silent. Then I continued: “Poland was conquered in 28 days, and in the same 28 days in Stalingrad, the Germans were able to capture only a few houses. Denmark lasted exactly one day. And the whole of Europe submitted in three months. And our soldiers had to free her. And at what cost! A million lives of Soviet soldiers who gave up for the liberation of Europeans from fascism. But Europe chose to forget about it!

Vasily Lanovoy

Now many want to belittle the importance of our country in the defeat of fascism. It's fine if Western ideologists do it, but it's disgusting to see how our homegrown toadies sing along with them for opportunistic reasons. These people encroach on the sacred.

Vasily Lanovoy

Blooming May! Such as in the forty-fifth ...

Holy Ninth!

I bow down low to the waist to the soldiers,

That they brought us Victory a long time ago.

And on Victory Day I'm ready to hug

All veterans! God, let them live!

Let's not forget their feat, and again

We will thank them for life!

War, it is war...

And those who are scorched by the fierce breath,

That bitter cup that is drunk to the bottom,

Not even sweeter... with festive fireworks.

War, it is - war ...

And to this day, the old wounds ache.

And yet - put on the orders!

And Happy Victory Day, veterans!

For the ninth number, let's drink to all hell out of spite !!! For the victory in this world and for the tank - T-34, FOR "Katyusha", FOR a soldier ... let's drink standing up, guys!!! Let's say THANKS to grandfather for the Great Victory!!!

We are RUSSIAN and let the enemy remember forever that only then do we kneel when we kiss the RUSSIAN flag!

Thanks to grandfather for the Victory, for every house that stood, for the clear sky, for the faith, for the fact that we now live!

I don’t know why, it’s somewhere inside me, but for some reason I cry on Victory Day. This is really a holiday for me with tears in my eyes. Especially when I hear the song "Victory Day". But at the same time, the mood is still festive. Probably the tears of memory are combined with pride for their people and joy from a difficult, but still Victory.

There are almost none left - WAR VETERANS ...

That distant and strong SOVIET COUNTRY ...

But burst into their youth... Without asking the war...

Who reached the Victory ... Well, someone left names at the graves ...

How they defeated the enemy, they themselves knew GOD ...

Boots trampled kilometers of roads ...

And believe me, more than once, death looked in the face ...

And in the hand the ring froze from the grenade ...

We know firsthand about that terrible misfortune ...

From fathers and grandfathers about the great war ...

You are all in the memory of our WAR VETERANS ...

That distant and strong... that SOVIET country...

Let's quietly bow our heads... Just keep quiet...

Thank you for the VICTORY, you loved ones, relatives ...

Shcherblyuk Ludmila

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Victory Day! He froze on the ships

He raised an eternal flame over the cup

It rumbles and beats in people's hearts,

Scorches us with a song, rings in verses,

Blazes with posters, flowers.

(E. Asadov)

Victory! Victory!

In the name of the motherland - victory!

Eternity puts them at the head ...

In the name of the living - victory

In the name of the future - victory!

(R. Rozhdestvensky)

Not all soldiers will meet the day of victory

Not everyone can come to the parade.

Soldiers are mortal:

Feats are immortal.

The courage of the soldiers does not die.

(B. Serman)

"I am equal among equals with you

I became a stone, but I live

You, who gave me centuries,

Don't forget for an hour

That I look at you from a stone.

(M. Maksimov)

“The second front was opened by a Russian woman. In 1941, when she took on all this male, backbreaking work, when the front, the army, the war leaned on her with their might. Well, I'm not talking about the feat of the same Russian woman after the war, the hearth is homely, warmly homely, the song - all this was warm. And a new generation grew up primarily around women. This must never be forgotten. And, of course, a Russian woman, a Russian woman, is worthier than the greatest monuments.”

(F. Abramov)

We are soldiers

And this is our glory

Those who died and returned

We ourselves must tell by right

About our generation of soldiers.

(N. Starshinov)

Farewell! Over time together

Rolling over the last wave

We leave on the path of honor

Dear those who came from the war.

We are leaving ... Over our daily bread -

Great Victory crown

Let's go saluting the living

Breaking our hearts.

(M. Dudin)

Soldiers in the trenches

And fell in mortal combat

But they did not spare their lives

For your bitter land.

R. Rozhdestvensky

They say posthumously

Our bodies will become earth.

I'm ready to believe

In this simple rumor.

Let me become a particle

Land reclaimed in battle

The land on which

Now I live with all my heart.

(R. Gamzatov)

And I, until death extinguished

In my eyes the last star -

I am your soldier, waiting for your orders.

Lead me, Great Russia,

For labor. To death, to a feat - I'm going!

(N. Gribachev)

What to do. Memory is to blame.

Like a bayonet she scratched,

That on such a day a long time ago

(Do not get rid of this date from the heart!)

The war rose in black smoke.

(E. Asadov)

For the rest of my life

We have enough deeds and glory,

Victory under the bloody enemy

For the rest of my life.

(from song)

O my generation! We walked with you

For the happiness of the earth through the smoke and troubles,

Scarlet dawn spots on the dry land

Like a memory of the heavy price of victory.

(E. Asadov)

…I know,

How clay smells in the trenches,

I heard,

I walked from the Volga itself

to Berlin

soldier

his motherland

(V. Poltoratsky)

I don't need to worry

So that that war is not forgotten,

After all, this memory is our conscience,

She's like a force we need

Y. Voronov

Do not forget, do not forget us, soldiers,

Those who were buried by the war ...

Dates are still being answered

To their immortal names

(I. Rzhavsky)

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Thanks to everyone who gave their lives

For native Russia, for freedom,

Who forgot fear and fought,

Serving the people you love.

Thank you,

Your deed is eternal

As long as my country is alive

You are in our souls

In our heart

Heroes will not be forgotten, Never!

Come on, the ninth, let's remember them,

Who is no longer alive today ...

Who never returned in forty-five,

Remaining in our memory as a soldier ...

And those who returned, but soon left -

In the light of that refuge I found ...

Blame it all - a brutal war,

Giving posthumous orders,

Wounded souls and bodies,

Brought so much evil to the living !!!

Defenders! We will honor you sacredly

And keep those terrible years in memory,