War Quotes

You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

War is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy.
Bart Simpson

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

In any might, there will be debility. Our victory depends on undertaking bold actions in a suitable manner after searching and finding that (debility). In this manner only a lad got the victory over the demonic and staunch Goliath.

The guerrilla war is a form of the mass struggle.

The liberation war is a blood shedding revolutionary method of politics.

War is what happens when language fails.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
A. J. P. Taylor

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Chris Hedges

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.

prepare for war, for you have found peace intolerable.
Scipio Africanus

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

So give to the poor; Im begging you, Im warning you, Im commanding you, Im ordering you.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

prepare for war, for you have found peace intolerable.
Scipio Africanus







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