Attila Quotes

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

War! War! War! I fear it will swallow up everything good and useful.

... proceed northward by interior channels, devastating, laying waste, sacking and burning whatever settlements, plantations and towns there may be ... and ... taking possession of the entire country, for ... these parts hold no hostile troops able to resist those under your command.

Terrour ... makes short warres

I am the Scourge of God.

The barbarian nation of the Huns, became so great that more than a hundred cities were captured. There were so many murders and blood-lettings that the dead could not be numbered.

The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.

There is not perhaps on this globe a single foot of ground which has not been conquered by the sword at some time or other, and where the people occupying it have not maintained themselves on it by force. If the Negroes were stronger than the Europeans, Europe would be partitioned by the Negroes and not Africa by the Europeans. The 'right' claimed by people who bestow on themselves the title of 'civilized' to conquer other peoples, whom it pleases them to call 'uncivilized,' is altogether ridiculous, or rather, this right is nothing other than force.

Spain stooped on South America, like a vulture on its prey. Everything was force. Territories were acquired by fire and sword. Cities were destroyed by fire and sword. Hundreds of thousands of human beings fell by fire and sword. Even conversion to Christianity was attempted by fire and sword.

I will let loose the dogs of hell, Ten thousand Indians, who shall yell And foam and tear, and grin and roar, And drench their moccasins in gore: To these I’ll give full scope and play From Ticonderoga to Florida

You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.

Might gives the right to conquer and occupy..

Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.

War tore my family apart.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.