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Quotes About Warfare

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.
~ John Byng
but will supply our necessities until our warfare is ended, and we are called to triumph: such being the nature of his kingdom, that he communicates to us whatever he received of his Father. Since then he arms and equips us by his power, adorns us with splendour and magnificence
~ John Calvin
This renewal, indeed, is not accomplished in a moment, a day, or a year, but by uninterrupted, sometimes even by slow progress God abolishes the remains of carnal corruption in his elect, cleanses them from pollution, and consecrates them as his temples, restoring all their inclinations to real purity, so that during their whole lives they may practice repentance, and know that death is the only termination to this warfare.
~ John Calvin
It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.
~ John Cassian
From high in the air, London would look just like a model, with toy houses and miniature trees on tiny streets. Maybe that was the only way you could drop the bombs: by pretending that it wasn't real, that nobody would burn and die when they exploded below.
~ John Connolly
Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one's view of them.
~ John Connolly
Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
~ William C. Brown
For the French army was going to war. In taxis.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
871-900. Reign of Alfred in England. After a long and varied struggle, he rescues England from the Danish invaders.
~ Edward Shepherd Creasy
Further, if we are honest, nearly all of us who have hair on our chins or the prospect of it must admit to a built-in interest in fighting and the implements of fighting.
~ Edwin Tunis
Sowing bullets and waiting for peace, fail to match that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The USA has wasted more than a billion hundred dollars on bombing innocent people to kill a few terrorists. If I were the president of the USA; I would have showered dollars on the people to eliminate a handful of mastermind terrorists rather than bombing and giving money to bastards who created such monsters. As a result, the world was greener, and people were not hungry even America was ten times rebuilt.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The world seems as under bio coronavirus warfare designedly; however, which state will initiate to notice and investigate that; whereas, the survival of humanity stands on terrible risks and danger.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The battlefield is no place for jokes
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
the white stain of chalk mixed with the clay topsoil zigzagging across the freshly-turned earth, the tell-tale marks of the German trenches from which ***** had been enfiladed. Fifty ploughings and fifty harvests had failed to erase those marks, so maybe they were etched into the land for all time, just like the spadework of the ancient peoples which the archaeologists studied with such fervour.
~ Anthony Price
What befalls a trained soldier during combat between nations is one thing; what occurs at home—on our street, in our yard, and on our land, to family—is not the same. In Qana, those who died would not flee, would not leave their homes. That is what bayt means.
~ Anthony Shadid
Some wars are unavoidable and need well be fought, but this doesn't erase warfare's waste. Sorry, we must say to the mothers whose son's die horribly. This will never end. Sorry.
~ Anthony Swofford
My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.
~ Anthony Swofford
entirely, and he could hear the boy's slow, labored breathing. God Almighty, he thought. He had seen some bad things; some pretty bad things in seventeen years of soldiering. Done them, too. At Werbomont
~ Anton Myrer
Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov