W Quotes
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“War is the normal state of the people.”
“War is the only game in which both sides lose.”
“War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.”
“War is the only proper school of the surgeon.”
“War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.”
“War is the plague of mankind; I am and remain in solidarity with eternal peace.”
“War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.”
“War is the province of danger.”
Source: Essential On War for Business: The Classic Work by Carl von Clausewitz for Business Today
“War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.”
“War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.”
Source: On War
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
“War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.”
“War is the science of destruction.”
“War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.”
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.”
“War is the status quo,
Peace is a political woe.
Up the creek without a paddle,
Better not rock those in the saddle,
Lest you are branded a stately foe!
If you still got the backbone,
To tell right from the wrong.
Grab the keys from savages,
Trash all prehistoric baggages!
Past tradition, stand just and strong.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.”
“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”
Source: Technics and Civilization
“War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.”
“War is the supreme form of prestige.”
Source: The Notebooks of Simone Weil
“War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.”
“War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“War is the symptom, patriotism is the disease.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“War is the symptom,
patriotism is the disease.
Terrorists harbor patriotism,
Reformists harbor peace.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“War is the trade of kings.”
“War is the tragic echo of humanity's inability to listen before raising swords.”
“War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.”
“War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.”
Source: End Zone
“War is the ultimate tool of politics.”
Source: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
“War is the usual condition of Europe.”
“War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.”
“War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.”
“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”
Source: The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment
“War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.”
Source: A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc
“War is to man what maternity is to a woman”
“War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”
“War is to some people the solution to peace.”
“War is too big for us. Poverty is too alienating for us. Corruption is too complicated for us. But the killing of innocent voiceless animals for food that we relish in our dining rooms-that is something we can change.”
Source: The Shooting Star
“War is too important to be left to the generals”
“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”
“War is too serious to be entrusted to generals”
“War is too strange to be processed alone.”
“War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.”
“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”
Source: Way of the Cat: Nap, Do Nothing and Stretch Your Way to a Blissful Life
“War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget.”
“War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.”
“War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and alien cultures, who know that all revolutions begin within and that you cannot impose your brand of enlightenment on anyone else.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.”