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Quotes About Warfare

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
~ Gabriel Kolko
No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.
~ Belva Ann Lockwood
Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
~ Robert Duvall
I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning.
~ Sgt. Slaughter
They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.
~ John Buford
I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.
~ Rod Stewart
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)
~ Joachim du Bellay
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
~ Wendell Berry
Patience is the key to any battle.
~ Ieyasu Tokugawa
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.
~ Thomas Paine
How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.
~ Billy S. VanOrsdol
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
~ Alfred Nobel
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
~ Tacitus
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
~ Ahmed Yassin
They make a desert and call it peace.
~ Tacitus
Peace through superior firepower.
~ John Ringo
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
~ Peter Ustinov
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
~ Robert Ardrey
Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?
~ Malala Yousafzai
Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
~ Pope Paul VI
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
~ Sitting Bull