Warfare Quotes
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There is no instance of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare.
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More Warfare Quotes
Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Dream of fighting fields no more: Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto I, Stanza 31.
The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight—How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!
henry van dyke— Another Chance.
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
heinz guderian— Quoted in "Sword Point" - Page 141 - by Harold Coyle - 1988
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
orson welles— As the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949)
My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it."
bill mauldin— Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution (1978) Foreword
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest mayalso be the gentlest.
— 1962 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— 1833 General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [...] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways."
henry adams— As quoted in Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn by Leon Wolff, p. 195
We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured.
wernher von braun— Arts & Entertainment, Biography (1959–1961 series). Mike Wallace, television biography of Wernher von Braun, video clip of the press statement. (May 1945)
He tried also to encourage civilised warfare among earthworms, by supplying them with small pieces of pipe, with which they might fight if so disposed.
stuart dodgson collingwood— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 11
The US has always taken velvet revolution into consideration by promoting Western culture in the society and by causing strife between people and the government through propaganda, organizing certain individuals, psychological warfare and making intentional use of media, intellectual circles, university student's establishments and feminism movements in order to implement its interfering policies.
ahmad khatami— Cleric says US seeks velvet revolution, Press TV, 20 Jul 2007
Shall we now give up the independence we have won, and crusade abroad in a utopian attempt to force our ideas on the rest of the world; or shall we use air power, and the other advances of modern warfare, to guard and strengthen the independence of our nation?
charles lindbergh— A speech on “Air Power” (29 August 1941)
Erich Ludendorff was considered the brains of the new German command. He pushed for the resumption of unlimited submarine warfare, which ultimately brought America into the conflict.
erich ludendorff— Winston Groom
We are here to announce class warfare, in peace and for democracy.
nattawut saikua— As quoted in "Protests Urge Resignation of Leaders in Thailand" in The New York Times (15 March 2010)
Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.
yoshijirō umezu— Quoted in "The Second Attack on Pearl Harbor" - Page 201 - by Steve Horn - History - 2005
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in that not only are the pathways of scientific thought determined by the presuppositions of the scientists but their goals are the testing and revision of old presuppositions and the creation of new.
Gregory Bateson— p.25 (Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988)
It's class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
warren buffett— Interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN (May 25, 2005)A similar quote was reported in a column by Ben Stein from an interview with Buffett: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Ben Stein, In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning (November 26, 2006), New York Times
I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.
Robertson Davies— "Sunday Morning"
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.
benjamin disraeli— Letter to Lord Grey de Wilton (3 October 1873), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 5 (1920), p. 262.
Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.
james mattis— In response to a question during a congressional hearing about whether the U.S. should modify its Afghan strategy in response to six U.S. soldiers being killed by Afghan soldiers between Feb. 23 and March 1. As quoted in Key commanders have their say on Afghanistan (2012) by Walter Pincus, The Washington Post
There is no necessary connection between warfare and human nature. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead— p.134 (And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America, 1942)
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
Margaret Mead— p.198 (People and Places, 1959)
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
— “A Book Which Reveals Men to Themselves”, Address on the Tercentenary of the Tranlation of the Bible (7 May 1911) in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 104.
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.
howard zinn— Ch. 1 (A People's History of the United States (1980))
He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control.
— A Dictionary of Thoughts, p. 512.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
— Orson Welles as the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949)
All warfare is based on deception.
— Sun Tzu, Art of War.
There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
— Warren Buffet, in New York Times Magazine (November 2006)
Not arrested development or immaturity but deliberate and mature warfare against God marks the homosexual. God's penalty is death, and a godly order will enforce it.
— R. J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law, 1973, quoted in Steven E Atkins,
