Paul Virilio Quotes

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

Through the stupidity and ineptitude of old men in the chancellories of Europe, and there are still a lot of doddering old men over there in positions of power, along with a sorry lot of confirmend megalomaniacs, egomaniacs, and psychopaths, who are literally preparing to dip their hands in blood and drag the whole world into the frightful mess they are creating for themselves.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

War is politics by other means.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Stand by your bed and salute me.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we boast of the continual decrease in human participation in technical operations.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

Every US President has to have a war.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!