Quotes About Warfare

You know, most people's pillow talk isn't about battle and killing," I said.

He doesn't drink coffee or tea,' I said. 'We just drink the blood of our enemies,' Nicky said.

Japanese soldiers split open the stomachs of pregnant women and bayoneted the fetuses; they tied up local farmers and used them for target practice; they tortured thousands of innocent people in ways that rival the Gestapo at its worst; and they were pursuing deadly medical experiments long before Dr. Mengele and Auschwitz.

Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder.

The good soldier swears to kill. Fire the cannon, mount the barricade, lock and load. Smell your brother's blood on your shirt. Wipe your sister's brains off your face. Die, if you have to, so they'll live. Kill to keep your people alive, live to kill some more.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

Science leads you to killing people.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

Therm-bombs! Drop 'em right on us! I been roasted before—it's nothing!

Don't let 'em see they killed you!

Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?

If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Yub, Yub, Commander. -Janson

Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...

The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were

We'd rip out the hedges and burn the hooches and blow all the wells and kill every chicken, pig and cow in the whole fucking ville. I mean, if we can't shoot these people, what the fuck are we doing here?

Trapped with his men in no man's land, Hutchison saw, to his amazement, "a squadron of Indian Cavalry, dark faces under glistening helmets, galloping across the valley towards the slope. No troops could have presented a more inspiring sight than these natives of India with lance and sword, tearing in mad cavalcade on to the skyline. A few disappeared over it: they never came back. The remainder became the target of every gun and rifle.