Reply With Quote"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his" - i forget but i think its montgomery
Quotes about war
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"Sweat saves blood." - Erwin Rommel
"So long as there are men there will be wars" - Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"If you want peace, prepare for war" - An ancient Roman expression, derived from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius. In Latin: "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." Literal Translation: "Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war."
"I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice
"The purpose of all war is ultimately peace." - Saint Augustine
"War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left" - Bertrand Russell
"War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided." - Philip Bobbitt, in "The Shield of Achilles"
"If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army." - Frederick the Great
"It is a tribute to the humanity of ordinary people that horrible acts must be camouflaged [with words] like security, peace, freedom, democracy, the 'national interest'." - Howard Zinn, Boston University professor and former Second World War bomber pilot, USA.
"War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror." - Ludwig von Mises
"War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it." - Erasmus
"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." Will Rogers
"War is the national industry of Prussia." attributed to Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country." Bertrand Russell
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." Plato
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his" - i forget but i think its montgomery
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Quote: Patton
This one concerns most people who posts different pro-war **** in discussions here"War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it." - Erasmus
War is f*cking awesome - me
To my knowledge Erasmus never tasted war. He was part of the educated gentry around the time of Thomas More. The most difficult battle he had to face was whether to side with More on the reformation. ArmChair philosophy at its finest.Originally Posted by Abbyy
War is not "sweet" for those who have tasted it!!!
just do a search for PTSD on this forum to understand my point.
"War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it." - ErasmusTo my knowledge Erasmus never tasted war. He was part of the educated gentry around the time of Thomas More. The most difficult battle he had to face was whether to side with More on the reformation. ArmChair philosophy at its finest.
War is not "sweet" for those who have tasted it!!!
good quote..."I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice
"Aaaarrgh" - any one of the millions who got killed in every war since we started chucking rocks at each other.
Wasnt there a War of Secession general who said something along the lines of "It good that war is so terrible or men would never stop fighting" - I've probably got it way wrong.
D'oh!!!!"War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it." - ErasmusTo my knowledge Erasmus never tasted war. He was part of the educated gentry around the time of Thomas More. The most difficult battle he had to face was whether to side with More on the reformation. ArmChair philosophy at its finest.
War is not "sweet" for those who have tasted it!!!
I'll just go buy a pair of glasses, get them cleaned and blame the whole sordid affair on my bifocals
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You must be russian.
"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation."
- George Washington
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war, by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"
- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. - May 31, 1944
By far my favorite, but I can never remember it wholly.
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral--doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
- Robert Heinlein, author
Another excellent one
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "
- John Stuart Mill, English philosopher
This is a also not too shabby, though not exactly on the topic
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.
This is what that crazy Democrat primary candidate tried to imitate.
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills: we shall never surrender"
- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister - speech in the House of Commons, 4 June 1940
Very apropo today.
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke, British statesman and philosopher
”Veni, Vedi, Vici” - I came, I saw, I conquered.
- Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman emperor
My favorite quote isn't about war proper, but about the military anyway:
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-George Orwell
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