Quotes About Warfare

No history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leads from the slingshot to the megaton bomb.

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

Pour livrer une guerre contre le Liban, il ne suffit pas de déstabiliser le pays pour le plonger dans la violence, il faut aussi déstabiliser l'opinion publique internationale pour lui faire accepter, voire souhaiter, les bombardements et la mort.

Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

when Latin crusading armies arrived in the Near East to wage what essentially were frontier wars, they were not actually invading the heartlands of Islam. Instead, they were fighting for control of a land that, in some respects, was also a Muslim frontier

Islam had, from its earliest days, embraced warfare. Muhammad himself prosecuted a series of military campaigns while subjugating Mecca, and the explosive expansion of the Muslim world during the seventh and eighth centuries was fuelled by an avowed devotional obligation to spread Islamic rule. The union of faith and violence within the Muslim religion, therefore, was more rapid and natural than that which gradually developed in Latin Christianity.

By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.

If one really believed in the reliability and permanence of an international arrangement, such schemes for providing the authority with 'hostages' might be more efficient, even more humane, than providing it with bombers and shock troops. One could even go further and let the force have a monopoly of critical medicines to use for bacterial warfare on a transgressor country. As soon as it starts an epidemic, it send its medical units in to make sure that no one suffers who cooperates.

The combat deepens. On, ye brave,Who rush to glory or the grave!Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,And charge with all thy chivalry!

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

A whiff of grapeshot.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

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.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.

That's one of the neat things about 'Call of Duty.' There are areas in the game where we were able to score the gameplay.

I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

A veces se preguntaba si los instintos del ser humano habían cambiado en ese tiempo, y siempre llegaba a la conclusión de que no. Por lo menos en los aspectos más básicos y primitivos. Le constaba que el hombre siempre había sido agresivo, ansioso por dominar, por controlar el mundo y todo lo que se encontraba en él. Las guerras en Europa y en Japón daban fe de ello

é que os homens, com satisfação, mudam de senhor pensando melhorar e esta crença faz com que lancem mão de armas contra o senhor atual, no que se enganam porque, pela própria experiência, percebem mais tarde ter piorado a situação.

Thus it will always happen that he who is not your friend will demand your neutrality, whilst he who is your friend will entreat you to declare yourself with arms.

Years hence it will be possible for nations to fight without armies, ships or guns, by weapons far more terrible, to the destructive action and range of which there is virtually no limit. A city, at any distance whatsoever from the enemy, can be destroyed by him and no power on earth can stop him from doing so.