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Quotes About Warfare

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.
~ Paul Virilio
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.
~ James Crumley
Briefly, prayer warfare simply means holding unceasingly the power of the "finished work of Christ" over the hosts of evil, in their attack upon some place or person, until the victory is won. Just as Moses lifted his hands stedfastly until the victory was won, so the prayer warrior holds up stedfastly the victory of the cross—the finished victory of Christ over Satan—until the forces of evil retreat and are vanquished.
~ Jessie Penn-Lewis
Reading the Bible on a regular basis involves engaging in spiritual warfare, because Satan doesn't want us to read it.
~ Jim Cymbala
terrorism is nothing more than a form of psy­chological warfare, as acts of terrorism have no intrinsic military value aside from their effects on the psyches of the target populations.
~ Jim Hougan Peter Levenda
The involvement of intelligence agents in the field of Egyptian archaeology, the UFO phenomenon, and other odd pursuits will be discussed in a later chapter. For now, it suffices to point out that psychological warfare, literature, archaeology, and the paranormal not only make for strange bedfellows: in the war years of the last century it was positively an orgy.
~ Jim Hougan Peter Levenda
Millennia of warfare and millions of deaths have resulted from religious disputes over exactly who God is and which people meet God's approval.
~ Jim Marrs
It's something that this country hasn't had to deal with. But there's going to be a whole new generation that doesn't know their father. It's almost selfish of us to die. They train us as warriors. But they don't teach us how to take the pain away.
~ Jim Sheeler
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
~ Jimmy Doolittle
If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?
~ Joan Baez
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
~ Joan Baez
You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)
~ Joe Abercrombie
What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?
~ Joe Abercrombie
I have seen hell, it is a great city under siege.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I hoped her mood would pass, but it looked as if something essential inside her had slipped away. Shell shock. Fatigue of battle. War neurosis. Apparently, it didn't take long to strike.
~ Ann Howard Creel
I look to Agent Orange—the spreading of twenty million gallons of deadly herbicides across Vietnam by U.S. forces from 1961 to 1971—long studied as part of the history of warfare and combat zones and as environmental history but rarely joined with the enduring violence of compounded forms of imperial governance. It is far from the only one.
~ Ann Laura Stoler
humanity, gunpowder, and blood. And felt
~ Anna Campbell
Private property is the smallest unit of warfare - The Environmental Rescue Team Handbook
~ Annalee Newitz
it is true that both the Red Army and the secret police traditionally gave vodka to soldiers who were being asked to do dirty work: empty bottles are almost always found inside mass graves.
~ Anne Applebaum
You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.
~ Anne Carson
An Fallschirmen senken sich sachte wie im Schlaf Tausende Soldaten auf das Küstenland herab, Heuschreckensegen, auf den die meisten hier sehnlich gewartet haben.
~ Anne Weber
Issues of power, control, energy fuels, and political strength have become key themes in our current events. We have come a long way from iron spearheads to nuclear warheads, yet the disease of power used for control and domination has remained.
~ Anodea Judith
Twould please me best to fight these Greeks alone.
~ Euripides
With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival.
~ Evan Wright