warfare quotes

All the devastation, the butchery, the plundering, the conflagrations, and all the anguish which accompanied the recent disaster at Rome were in accordance with the general practice of warfare.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 427  City of God, vol.1, ch.1, section 8.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest mayalso be the gentlest.

-Theodosius G Dobzhansky
  Mankind Evolving.

Insurrectionby means of guerrilla bandsis the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke.

- Giuseppe Mazzini
  General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.

All warfare is based on deception.

-SunTzu
c.500^320   BC  TheArt ofWar, ch.1,'Laying Plans', section18 (translated byJames Clavell,1981).

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

- (George) Orson Welles
  Harry Lime's speech to Holly Martins as he leaves the great wheel,TheThird Man.This phrase was added to the script by Welles who played Harry Lime.

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one, a savage city, yet it had such tenderness, a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone and steel and tunnelled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate.

-Thomas Clayton Wolfe
  TheWeb and the Rock (published1939), ch.30.