W Quotes
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“War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.”
“War is murder writ large.”
“War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.”
Source: Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982
“War is necrophilia. And this necrophilia is central to soldiering, just as it is central to the makeup of suicide bombers and terrorists. The necrophilia is hidden under platitudes about duty or comradeship. It awaits, especially in moments when we seem to have little to live for and no hope, or in moments when the intoxication of war is at its pitch, to be unleashed. When we spend long enough in war it comes to us as a kind of release, a fatal and seductive embrace that can consummate the long flirtation in war with our own destruction. The ancient Greeks had a word for such a drive. They called it ekpyrosis - to be consumed by a ball of fire. They used the word to describe heroes.”
Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
“War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.”
“War is never a lasting solution for any problem.”
“War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.”
“War is never cheap or easy.”
“War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.”
“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
Source: Wars I have seen
“War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.”
“War is never the answer. Conflict complicates everything and resolves nothing.”
Source: Heirs of Secrets
“War is ninety percent information.”
“War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.”
“War is no longer an event. It is a condition. At its core, war is brutally simple.
It does not create—it destroys. It does not negotiate—it takes. The objective is clear: weaken the enemy, seize what can be taken, and protect what must not be lost. Everything else—strategy, diplomacy, justification—comes later.”
Source: THE BUSINESS OF WAR
“War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.”
Source: Hemingway on War
“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of child pleading, the smell of smoke and fear. Women survivors of war are not the single image portrayed on the television screen, but the glue that holds families and countries together. Perhaps by understanding women, and the other side of war ... we will have more humility in our discussions of wars... perhaps it is time to listen to womens side of history.”
“War is not a fairy tale where someone is good, someone is bad, someone is hero, or someone is villain. In a war, everyone is working to serve their own interest.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“War is not a jobs program.”
“War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.”
“War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.”
“War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.”
“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful necessity of war ought to be stern. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war and not a game. Otherwise, war is a favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous...”
“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.”
Source: War and Peace
“war is not a silly thing its a life of hardworking people”
“War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.”
“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
“War is not an act of God. War grows directly out of the things which individuals do or fail to do. It is, in fact, the consequence of national policies or lack of policies.”
Source: Bernard Montgomery's Art of War
“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.”
Source: On War
“War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.”
Source: On War
“War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.”
“War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.”
“War is not civilized.”
“War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)
“War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.”
Source: Deathless
“War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it. ~Izuru Kira”
“War is not human nature. It is a habit.”
“War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order”
Source: International Co-operation
“War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.”
“War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.”
Source: Vorkosigan's Game
“war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.”
“War is not just about to shoot the gun and kill, it's a real chess game”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.”
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.”
Source: On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles
“War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.”
Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part
“War is not nice.”