W Quotes
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“War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.”
Source: Infantry Attacks
“War makes good history but peace is poor reading.”
“War makes its own morals.”
Source: Portrait of Myself
“War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.”
Source: This Business of Living
“War makes monsters of men,”
Source: The Ask and the Answer
“War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.”
“War makes monsters out of men.”
“War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.”
“War makes rattling good history.”
“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”
Source: Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe
“War makes strangers bedfellows.”
“War makes thieves and peace hangs them.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“War makes you forget who's important.”
“War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.”
Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.”
Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography
“War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.”
“War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.”
“War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one.”
“War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.”
Source: Minority Report
“War may separate friends, but it can also unite enemies.”
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
Source: Just Peace: A Message of Hope
“War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.”
Source: Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”
“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.”
“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.”
“War meant no one could choose the life they wanted for themselves.”
Source: Beyond the Darkness
“War might be hell and still the right thing to do. Economies could collapse despite the best-laid plans. People could work hard all their lives and still lose everything.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.”
Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.”
Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.”
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.”
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.”
Source: The Fall of Hyperion
“War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“War never brings peace but it brings dead coffins on each side. War is collectively oppressing the rightful governance of the government with force.
Generations were made witness to the corruption, falsehood and destruction through time but today we all have become our own witness, witnesses of our own stupidity, madness, and greed.
We thought by the technology we discovered light but rather it has reflected our own darkness within.”
“War never leaves where it found a nation.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Burke
“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.”
“War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?" he said.
"Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?"
"Absol—well, okay."
"Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?"
"All right, I'll grant you that, but—"
"Saving civilization from a horde of—"
"It doesn't do any good in the long run is what I'm saying, Nobby, if you'd listen for five seconds together," said Fred Colon sharply.
"Yeah, but in the long run, what does, Sarge?”
Source: Thud!
“War not only takes lives but also
the hope, positivity, and innocence of the survivors”
Source: The Life of Tolka
“War of choice is not fought by the leaders that call for them, rather they are fought by those that have no choice.”
“War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.”
“War of words. We are influenced by the western media. But is what we hear the truth or just PR campaigns for governments?”
Source: Doubt
“war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.”
“War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.”
“War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.”
“War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.”
“War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.”
“War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.”
“War, on the other hand, was the result of failure; failure of diplomacy, failure of intelligence, failure to prepare, failure to act decisively when appropriate action became apparent, failure to call a bluff and failure to prevent open conflict which resulted in the decimation of a generation of high-principled young men and women.”