quote: war

  • Wild animals never kill for sport.  Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself. – James Anthony Froude

  • In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock. – Oscar Wilde

  • Kill a man and you are a murderer, kill millions of men and you are a conqueror, kill everyone and you are a God. – Jean Rostand

  • In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. – Herodotus

  • As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde

  • War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Unknown

  • Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its…

  • In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came…

  • The country that draws a broad line between its fighting men and its thinking men will find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards. – William F. Butler

  • The Middle Eastern states aren’t nations; they’re quarrels with borders. – P. J. O’Rourke

  • Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon

  • 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. – Cesare Pavese