Quotes About Combat

My sentence is for open war.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

My voice is still for war.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

I think war is a dangerous place.

It's the way of evil. It is unrelenting. And the fight is always there. Our job is to just fight the battles we're assigned to fight.

Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine. - Katniss -

When you're in the arena... you just remember who the enemy is.