Quotes About Warfare

In the interests of research I have walked on many battlefields that once were liquid with pulped mens bodies and spangled with exploded shells and splayed bone. All of them have been green again by the time I got there. Each has inspired a few good quotes in its day. Sad marble angels brood like hens over the grassy nests where nothing hatches.

I have many weaknesses, and among them is a stubborn determination to keep all my children close to me. I think it stems from the years I had to spend in warfare, when I scarcely saw them at all.

Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword!

The French would do whatever it took to get Britain to commit itself. In 1909 they produced a carefully faked document, said to have been discovered when a French commercial traveler picked up the wrong bag on a train, which purported to show Germany's invasion plans for Britain.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

every time a bomb exploded, every anti-personnel weapon that sent its hundreds of particles tearing through the sift tissues of soft bodies, every helicopter that was shot down with its crew, every plane hit with a missile: brrrring, brrrring, on the great cash register in the homeland bank. It was all profit. It would have to be replaced. It was the perfect form of fantastically expensive and forced consumption, paid for by taxes.

Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

Slavery is hell. Freedom is heaven. Deception is warfare. Honesty is peace.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

If your attack is going too well, youre walking into an ambush.

Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground.

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

Since the dawn of time, warring combatants have regularly reached for what support they could find to nerve their own side for battle.

That dialogue pictures Julius arriving at the gates of heaven on a great military charger and being rejected by St. Peter, who cannot be made to understand how the vicar of Christ could have turned from humility, service, and devoted spiritual life to warfare and diplomacy.

But the epitaph for which he has ever since been remembered was written by Erasmus, in the witty but savage dialogue "Julius Exclusus." That dialogue pictures Julius arriving at the gates of heaven on a great military charger and being rejected by St. Peter, who cannot be made to understand how the vicar of Christ could have turned from humility, service, and devoted spiritual life to warfare and diplomacy.

Prayer is picking a fight with the Enemy. It's spiritual warfare. Intercession transports us from the sidelines to the front lines without going anywhere. And that is where the battle is won or lost. Prayer is the difference between us fighting for God and God fighting for us. But we can't just hit our knees. We also have to take a step, take a stand. And when we do, we never know what God will do next.