Quotes About Warfare

My voice is still for war.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

Never go to war without God, Riley. Only when you belong completely to him can he truly use you.

War can come any way. If we let it. If we invite it. Not on land with horses and swords. But in our houses. In our bedrooms. In our hearts.

the twelfth-century Song of Roland, which turns the bloody incident into a major conspiracy between the Arabs of Zaragoza and a traitor within Charlemagne's own camp.

Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?" "Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot," I say.

And now Coin, with her fistful of precious nukes and her well-oiled machine of a district, finding it's even harder to groom a Mockingjay than to catch one.

But at this point, with only minor victories for the rebels, a cease-fire could only result in a return to our previous status. Or worse.

En los distritos no tenemos hospitales de verdad, morimos en casa, lo que me resulta una perspectiva mucho más deseable que lo que tengo delante. Entonces recuerdo que muchas de estas personas habrán perdido sus hogares en los bombardeos.

it's great to have allies as long as you can ignore the thought that you'll have to kill them.

Not well. I know at any moment Snow could kill him. Especially since he warned Thirteen about the bombing. It's a terrible thing to live with," I say. "But because of what they're putting him through, I don't have any reservations anymore. About doing whatever it takes to destroy the Capitol. I'm finally free.