Quotes About Conflict

In any quarrel among men, if one side proclaims its complete impotence of will and hand, there are no bounds to the evils that may ensue.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-coloured flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. Yet even the military student, in his zeal to master the fascinating combinations of the actual conflict, often forgets the far more intricate complications of supply.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war the tendencies are far more important than the episodes. Without winning any sensational victories we may win this war.

kill not only men, but ideas.

One can hardly find a more perfect example of the impotence and fatuity of waging war by committee, or rather by groups of committees.

When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and these were of doubtful utility.

The use of force for the waging of war is not to be regulated simply by firm character and text-book maxims.

in mortal war anger must be subordinated to defeating the main immediate enemy.

I have always believed and I still believe that it is the Red Army that has torn the guts out of the filthy Nazis.

The Germans met them in overwhelming strength, and furious fighting began. All but five of the landing party were killed or captured.

the one most awful thing in war is 'the careful man'!

Fanaticism is not a cause of war. It is the means which helps savage peoples to fight. It is the spirit which enables them to combine—the great common object before which all personal or tribal disputes become insignificant.

We have had nothing else but wars since democracy took charge.

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.

I must confess to some sentiment about old Ireland, in spite of the ugly mask she tries to wear.

if I must add one word of criticism to the Vikings [it is] that they were entirely lacking in any conception of neutrality.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.

The Australians plunged through the apertures and slew or captured the defenders of the galleries.

He is no better than an epileptic corpse.

The story of the human race is War.

War is very cruel. It goes on for so long.

There are two supreme obligations which rest upon a British government. They are of equal importance. One is to strive to prevent a war, and the other is to be ready if war should come.

A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to peer.