Philip Caputo Quotes

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

Bloody Ground

I am ready to fight. My people are killed, my horses stolen; I am satisfied to fight.

And the war rages on in a land called somewhere And Generals order their men to kill And to fight for a cause they’ve long ago forgotten While a little cloud weeps on the side of a hill.

'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.

Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

I think I have great knowledge of - for military, and I think I have better vision for Syria than a lot of the so-called great military geniuses that are saying how to fight the war with Syria. In my opinion, they're doing just the opposite. Are we going to start World War III over Syria? Are we going to be there for the next 40 years?

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.