Quotes About Warfare

The American infantry, it is said, has seized control of cities as close as Eisenach and Ehrfurt, ransacking and burning the houses, raping the women, worse than the Russians.

If ye get into trouble, if one of the English soldiers grabs ye, jab this into him, hard as ye can, and run like the devil. Don't be squeamish or hesitate, because he'll do much worse to you." Mary nodded, her eyes grave. "I understand." She did, the little love. Mal pretended to shiver. "Now I know why Englishmen don't let their ladies fight alongside them. The women would take over in a heartbeat.

On Christmas Day, the promise of peace offered a soft and shining light in dark times, an eternal flame that warfare could not douse, nor hatred extinguish.

Their crops and possessions are being taken to build fortresses and buy warships so that a heartless queen and a false prince can attack realms that have not attacked us.

Damin, if you don't want people getting killed, you really should rethink this whole worshipping the God of War philosophy, you know. It's been my observation that people quite often come to harm when you throw them all on a field together, arm them with sharp implements, and tell them to hit each other until there's nobody left standing.

The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family's fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. He was twelve years old at the time…

And surely the ultimate point of weapons training was to kill humans.

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villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.

But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.

just programmed into the bomb's guidance system. "Hey!" the copilot told the Delta operator. "We don't

There're a couple of books that discuss this," Heath said to his friend. "On Killing [by Dave Grossman] is a good one. He writes about cops, and he discusses troops from the Civil War all the way up to now.

only a couple of miles east of the Helmand River, where villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.

In June 1793 sixty of the eighty departments of France were in revolt against Paris; the armies of the German princes were invading France from the north and east; the British attacked from the south and west; the country was helpless and bankrupt. Fourteen months later all France was under firm control, the invaders had been expelled, the French armies in turn occupied Belgium and were about to enter on twenty years of almost unbroken and effortless military triumph.

The indispensability of play-acting in the grim business of dying and killing is particularly evident in the case of armies. Their uniforms, flags, emblems, parades, music, and elaborate etiquette and ritual are designed to separate the soldier from his flesh-and-blood self and mask the overwhelming reality of life and death.

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

The combination of a short range and a powerful thermonuclear weapon was unfortunate. Launched from NATO bases in West Germany, Redstone missiles would destroy a fair amount of West Germany.

Dropping a nuclear weapon was never a good idea.

About eighty thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and more than two thirds of the buildings were destroyed because 0.7 gram of uranium-235 was turned into pure energy. A dollar bill weighs more than that.

As long as human nature is what it is, I'm afraid there will always be another war

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