Quotes about war
war stress military
An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow. J. F. C. Fuller
war army battle
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
war home men
Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'
war army men
In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
war government hands
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.
war teaching successful
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
war men numbers
It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
war swear-to-god volunteer
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will. J. D. Salinger
war book hero
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.
war fire guy
I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol! J. G. Ballard
war legs gestures
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
war hiroshima-and-nagasaki bombs
I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.
war world firsts
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...
war fighting film
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
war revision world
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. Ivica Dacic
war moving eras
I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.
war
I want to fight and win the war on cancer. Jason Chaffetz
warm
It made me feel real special, all warm inside, Emeka Okafor
war
It's like a war in here every day. Robert Lloyd
war people leaving
All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind. Lou Reed
war father book
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today. Lois Lowry
war paris germany
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris. Lloyd Alexander
war army world
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
war people chinese
Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third... Mao Zedong
war people would-be
Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.
war gun order
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
war army men
Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics.
war reading school
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare - he can learn through fighting in war. A revolutionary war is a mass undertaking; it is often not a matter of first learning and then doing, but of doing and then learning, for doing is itself learning.
war revolutionary-war unjust
All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.
war moving may
A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage. ... [Conversely, tactical plans may] ... have to be changed several times a day.
war law enemy
The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.
war two world
As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.
war revolution mass
The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.