Quotes About War

La politique [de la dictature bolchévik] n'est qu'une variante du communisme de guerre de 1920-1921 - avec de plus en plus de guerre (de répression armée) et de moins en moins de communisme. Son égalité est celle d'un pénitencier, sa liberté celle d'un groupe de forçats enchaînés. Pas étonnant que les bolcheviks affirment que la liberté est un préjugé bourgeois.

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting

I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender?

It makes no difference what men think of war…. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting the ultimate practitioner. —Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting the ultimate practitioner. —Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Accelerating the emergence of an American industrial bourgeoisie, the war tied the fortunes of this class to the Republican party and the national state.

La repugnancia a hacer la guerra no debe confundirse con la negativa a luchar

Moreover, the very needs of the war obliged any government to centralize and discipline, at the expense of the free, local, direct democracy of club and section, the casual voluntarist militia, the free argumentative elections on which the Sansculottes thrived. The process which, during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–9, strengthened Communists at the expense of Anarchists, strengthened Jacobins of Saint-Just's stamp at the expense of Sansculottes of Hébert's.

Kindness never won a war. The kind filled many graves.

Bisogna venir qui per vedere in quante parti un uomo può esser ferito.

It is not pleasant to be disliked,' he said, 'and it is very unpleasant to be German and to know that one is hated because one is German and because, collectively, we are wrong in what we are doing. That is why I hate this war, or one of the reasons. And of course, because of this, we shall lost it. We must. We have to.

You can't have this kind of war," Eisenhower said at a national security meeting a couple of years later. "There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) planes would quickly get off the ground, climb steeply, and send an emergency war order on a very-low-frequency radio, using an antenna five miles long. SAC began to develop a Post Attack Command and Control System. It would rely on airborne command posts, a command post on a train, a command post at the bottom of an abandoned gold mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and a command post, known as The Notch, inside Bare Mountain, near Amherst, Massachusetts. The

Thomas K. Jones, an undersecretary of defense, played down the number of casualties that a nuclear war might cause, arguing that families would survive if they dug a hole, covered it with a couple of doors, and put three feet of dirt on top. "It's the dirt that does it," Jones explained. "Everyone's going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around.

Ce matou-là ne fait pas de différences entre les câlins français et les câlins allemands, murmura Bernstein. Il n'a rien compris à la guerre. - C'est-à-dire qu'il a tout compris.

Personne ne dirige cette guerre. Tout le monde la subit. On ne voit pas sur qui on tire. Les ennemis comme les camarades n'ont le temps d'avoir un visage qu'une fois morts. Cela dépasse toute mesure humaine.

Ce matou-là ne fait pas de différence entre les câlins français et les câlins allemands. [...] Il n'a rien compris à la guerre. -C'est à dire qu'il a tout compris.

All men are good at exit lines," Harriette said as she removed her opera glass from her beaded reticule. "They use them so frequently, you know. It seems they are always walking out. Off to school, off to war, off to their clubs, or off to their mistresses." Sophy considered that briefly. "I'd say it was not so much a case of walking out as it is of running away.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!

I ask myself, is it just a wild flight of imagination to conceive of a world without war … but someone must try … " Julia Grace Wales

c'est qu'après la mort du « compromis historique » à l'italienne, plus aucune opportunité ne s'est présentée pour que la guerre froide se termine par un « match nul ». La défaite du « camp socialiste » était en train de devenir inéluctable. Aujourd'hui, sans mérite, nous le savons ; en 1978, les Soviétiques ne le savaient pas.