Emily Dickinson Quotes

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

War is death's feast.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

War is about dead people.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

The generals were fighting machine guns with the breasts of gallant men.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

War is cinema, and cinema is war

War,--the trade of barbarians!

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.

War makes early risers of us all.

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.