 
|
No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.
-American Indian Proverb
|
|
|
|
The best armor is to keep out of range.
-Italian Proverb
|
|
|
|
When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
-African Proverb
|
|
|
|
You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know.
-Anon.
from Viet Nam, 1968
|
|
|
|
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
-Proverb
|
|
|
|
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
-Aesop
The Eagle and the Arrow
|
|
|
|
We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction.
-Aesop
|
|
|
|
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
-Martin Amis
|
|
|
|
O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
-C. D. Andrews
|
|
|
|
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
-Hannah Arendt
Crises of the Republic, On Violence., 1972
|
|
|
|
If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fifty years? and What do you want your life to be like five years from now? the answers are quite often preceded by Provided there is still a world and Provided I am still alive. To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are.
-Hannah Arendt
|
|
|
|
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
-Isaac Asimov
|
|
|
|
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
-Margot Asquith
|
|
|
|
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
-Francis Bacon
|
|
|
|
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.
-Walter Bagehot
|
|
|
|
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
-Walter Bagehot
|
|
|
|
We
-Band of Brothers
Episode 3: Carentan
|
|
|
|
If goods don t cross borders, armies will.
-Fr
attributed
|
|
|
|
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
-Charles Baudelaire
|
|
|
|
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.
-Baudouin I
|
|
|
|
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
-Simone de Beauvoir
All Men are Mortal, 1946
|
|
|
|
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
-Ruth Benedict
|
|
|
|
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
-Tony Benn
|
|
|
|
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.
-Friedrich Von Bernhardi
|
|
|
|
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
-Hans A. Bethe
|
|
Books about War
