Quotes About Warfare

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

War upon rebellion was messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

Jenghiz Khan and his lieutenants slaughtered more than 18,500,000 human beings.

The cities of Russia and Poland were burned, their inhabitants tortured and massacred, with the consequence that progress was retarded for centuries. Almost

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Shall we surrender?' he said mildly. 'I think we should. After all we outnumber him only fifteen to one, we have only muskets to oppose his bow, and we are surrounded. Or at least I think we are. How is it that one man can surround fifteen? Please clear up this mystery for me.

No todas las batallas se ganan avanzando. No todas las retiradas son derrotas. Avanzar es una estrategia. Retirarse es también una estrategia. Una retirada debe realizarse

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

Che Guevara's manual: Know the terrain; hit the enemy at its weakest; never use brute strength.

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy's will are not allowed that luxury.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.