W Quotes
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“War is full of clichés, because only clichés can match the drama of the moment.”
Source: The Battle for the Falklands
“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”
“War is good business Invest your son”
Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971: Pocket Poets Number 30
“War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.”
“War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.”
“War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.”
“War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men throws himself on top of it, making his body a living shield. In the burst of wild fire he dies, and the others live. Heroism is only a word, often a phony one. This is an action for which there is no good word because we can hardly even imagine it, let alone give it its proper name. Very literally, one man takes death into his bowels, takes fire into his own sweet flesh, so that the other men can take life, some of them men he hardly knows.”
Source: The Hungering Dark: Discovering God's Hidden Grace and Hope Through Biblical Faith and Doubt
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.”
“War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak;
But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade
For added power or gain, sordid and despicable
As meanest office of the worldly churl.”
Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie
“War is horrible because it strangles youth.”
“War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.”
“War is horrible, but slavery is worse.”
“War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves”
“War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.”
“War is incidental to ideology, and this was certainly true for the war instigated by Adolf Hitler. Historians have aptly documented that Hitler knew he needed the fog of war and a radicalized population in order to enact the most extreme policies. This was equally true for both Germans and the people of their conquered territories. The war allowed Hitler the cover and justification to radicalize the T4 Euthanasia program against those lives deemed “not worth living” by pointing to the costs of maintaining those “useless eaters” during a time of war. It allowed license for Karl Brandt to “clear hospital beds” in the name of the war effort. The war’s conquered territory also brought conquered populations and increased the number of “unfit” and “undesired” population, including the Jewish population of Eastern Europe. The methods and technology of the T4 Euthanasia program were subsequently transferred from the German hospitals to the extermination camps, doctors, nurses, equipment, and all. This transference and repurposing of resources was all decided in the infamous Wannsee Conference, which we now know was the beginning of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”:“The aim of all this was to cleanse German living space of Jews in a legal manner.” (From the text of the Wannsee Protocol)”
“War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.”
“War is insanity magnified,
feeding off toxic madness
which then excretes chaos
completely indifferent
to the slaughtered rhymes and
screaming reasons of human beings.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”
“War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”
“War is just an excuse for having a small dick.”
“War is just demographics in a hurry.”
Source: War Nerd
“War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.”
Source: Kaunda on Violence
“War is just one more big government program.”
“War is just to those to whom war is necessary.”
“War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.”
“War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”
“War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.”
“War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.”
Source: Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness
“War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.”
“War is life war is the origin of all things.”
“War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.”
“War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.”
“War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“War is like a vacuum cleaner that sucks tax dollars out of your pocket and funnels the money directly into the pockets of the robber barons who own the weapons factories.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer”
Source: Broken Angels
“War is like fire. You cannot control it.
Once you start it. Everyone will die or be hurt by it. Including innocent people and it is difficult to stop it.”
“War is like government, a matter of tact.”
“War is like love, it always finds a way.”
Source: Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War
“War is like night, she said. It covers everything.”
Source: Night ; Dawn ; Day
“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”
Source: The Second World War
“War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”
“War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.”
“War is merely a continuation of politics.”
“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means”
“War is merely the universe’s Wi‑Fi‑password dispute—two armies fighting over a signal.”
“War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.”