World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the ‘eternal sentry.’ The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
War is not cheap, but it’s the human cost that’s the highest.
Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.
The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross and I grew up with that mining background. My father was a miner and my granddad was a miner, and I would say three out of ten on the street where I was born were working in the pits.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history – the Holodomor and the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the totalitarian Soviet regime.
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it’s the bicentennial of his birth. I’ve known a lot about the Civil War, but I’m just getting more into it.
A siege is an act of war.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.
You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That’s the last time I cried.
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
The first lesson is that you can’t lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can’t win a war if you haven’t.
Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
It’s the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.
From the point of the view of the nation’s power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
War is the science of destruction.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They’ll bankrupt you. Don’t ask a general for advice on war, and don’t ask a broker for advice on money.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada’s war effort as effective as possible.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
After every war someone has to tidy up.
The real war will never get in the books.
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
