Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Those blessed ages were fortunate which wanted the dreadful fury of the devilish and murdering pieces of ordnance, to whose inventor I am verily persuaded that they render in hell an eternal reward for his diabolical invention, by which he hath given power to an infamous, base, vile, and dastardly arm to bereave the most valorous knight.

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

In war, science has proven itself an evil genius; it has made war more terrible than it ever was before. Man used to be content to slaughter his fellow men on a single plane---the earth's surface. Science has taught him to go down into the water and shoot up from below and to go up into the clouds and shoot down from above, thus making the battlefield three times a bloody as it was before

The Byzantine commander had towers and siege weapons and flame-throwing tubes which could engulf 12 men at once, so fierce and adherent that none could withstand it.

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

Really, while gas is an awful thing to watch - the death is painful - to even watch these deaths - it's also bad to die from a bullet, a hand grenade, or a machete.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.