Quotes About War

The Roman people paid great attention to the rightness of their wars in the building of the empire. 'When the inception of war seems just,' ran the logic, 'it makes victory greater and ill success less perilous, while if it is thought to be dishonourable and wrong, it has the opposite effect'.

Talleyrand smiled. 'It seems that the English are preparing to fight to the last Austrian.

Die Armee ist ein zu gefährlicher Ort für Theaterkritiker. - Macro

Surely, he thought, next to a battle lost there is nothing so dreadful as a battle won.

Most of the codebreakers returned to their civilian lives, sworn to secrecy, unable to reveal their pivotal role in the Allied war effort. While those who had fought conventional battles could talk of their heroic achievements, those who had fought intellectual battles of no less significance had to endure the embarrassment of having to evade questions about their wartime activities.

Second World War was the physicists' war, because the atom bomb was detonated.

The fate of the Polish nation had depended on Rejewski, and he did not disappoint his country. Rejewski's attack on Enigma is one of the truly great accomplishments of cryptanalysis.

Jack Good, a veteran of Bletchley, commented: "Fortunately the authorities did not know that Turing was a homosexual. Otherwise we might have lost the war.

The German military were equally unenthusiastic, because they were oblivious to the damage caused by their insecure ciphers during the Great War. For example, they had been led to believe that the Zimmermann telegram had been stolen by American spies in Mexico, and so they blamed that failure on Mexican security. They still did not realize that the telegram had in fact been intercepted and deciphered by the British, and that the Zimmermann debacle was actually a failure of German cryptography.

Po první svÄ›tové válce se Spojenci nebáli nikoho.

Polský úspÄ›ch v prolomení Enigmy byl dán tÃ…â"¢emi faktory: strachem, matematikou a Å¡pionáží.

NaÅ¡tÄ›stí nahoÃ…â"¢e nevÄ›dÄ›li, že Turing je homosexuál, jinak bychom také mohli prohrát válku.

By depriving Rejewski of the keys, Langer believed he was preparing him for the inevitable time when the keys would no longer be available. He knew that if war broke out it would be impossible for Schmidt to continue to attend covert meetings, and Rejewski would then be forced to be self-sufficient. Langer thought that Rejewski should practice self-sufficiency in peacetime, as preparation for what lay ahead.

He needed to stop being angry, he realized. It wasn't Sir John's fault that he didn't understand the war—it was impossible to understand it unless you went there and saw it and heard it and smelt it for yourself, and even that might not be enough if you were just a visitor, a tourist able to return home when you felt you'd had enough…

Because it was the ugliness that drew him to her: it told him that she had suffered and been ruined by the war just like him. For her the damage was visible, whereas for him it was hidden beneath the surface. But they were still the same—casualties, walking wounded, carrying on without hope of recovery, separated from the rest of the population by an experience that they could neither share nor explain.

These were the soldiers of the Second Brigade—the Irish Brigade—and they were braver and rougher than almost any other unit in the entire Federal army. "When anything absurd, forlorn, or desperate was to be attempted," as one English war correspondent wrote, "the Irish Brigade was called upon." The

worst of all, beginning to forget, and knowing that he was forgetting. His mind, though tortured, had always been peculiarly acute: Now, by 1918 and the end of World War I, he seemed to know that his faculties were dimming, that his mind was at last becoming as weakened as his body, and that the sands were running out.

The remains of sixty thousand young seamen now lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. More men had died there in the five years of the Second World War than in all of the conflicts in the ocean since the first Romans had set out on their invading expeditions nearly two thousand years before.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.

They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.

It's easy to pay with the blood of others.

A jolly future! Henri closed his eyes. From Vassieux to Hiroshima – they had gone a long way in a single year. The next war would really be something! And the next post-war period, that would be even neater than this one! That is, if there is a next post-war period – if the defeated don't take it into their heads to blow up the world.