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Quotes About Warfare

It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Cosca winced. "You always were far too attached to fighting. How often did I tell you? A mercenary has no business getting involved with that nonsense.
~ Joe Abercrombie
People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth.
~ Joe Haldeman
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman
But they could not stay, because you could not raise a baby in a trench.
~ Joe Hill
By the end of World War II, the Germans had developed sarin, a nerve gas far more potent than tabun. The chemistry was relatively simple: methylphosphonyl difluoride mixed with rubbing alcohol.
~ Joe Schwarcz
rebels captured that base and
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
The mind will be still if there's no warfare, but there's always warfare if you have two powers, if you have good and evil, if you have desires, if you struggle to attain or achieve something.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
Join the Fleet, travel the galaxy, meet interesting new people and kill them.
~ Joel Shepherd
Johann Friedrich von Schiller
~ War nourishes war.
It would be as if the Navy Seals defected from the U.S. Army to help the Crips take over Los Angeles--and succeeded.
~ Johann Hari
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
~ Ron Silver
The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
~ Alexander Pope
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
~ Marcus Aurelius
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
~ William Shakespeare
I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.
~ Walter Crane
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed.
~ E. Jean Carroll
There are no truces in cultural warfare. The law of cultural life is either occupy your own cultural territory or have it occupied by alien forces.
~ E. Michael Jones
Once the Catholics lost their nerve in the war over the sexualization of culture, once they backed away from holding Hollywood Jews to the basic rudiments of sexual decency, it was inevitable that the instruments of culture they failed to control would get used against them in all out cultural warfare. The sexualization of the Catholic clergy dates from this period.
~ E. Michael Jones
Not a yard but was part of a shell-hole--not an inch, to be more precise-- And most of the holes held water, and all the water was ice: They stared at the bleak blue heavens like the glazed blue eyes of the slain, Till the snow came, shutting them gently, and sheeting the slaughtered plain.
~ E. W. Hornung
There are no winners in battle. Just survivors.
~ E.E. Knight
Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal.
~ E.M. Forster
That there are shops abroad, even in Athens, never occurred to them, for they regarded travel as a species of warfare, only to be undertaken by those who have been fully armed at the Haymarket Stores.
~ E.M. Forster