Quotes About Warfare

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men

An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.