Quotes About Warfare

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling

Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.

War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

The power of making war often prevents it.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way