Quotes About Warfare

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.