No War Quotes
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.
Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.
Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.
Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about the ability, courage, and commitment to end the war within oneself and not quit until the job is done.
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.
I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.
War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying to take you unaware.
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.
Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.
