Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

I don't like wars. Any wars.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

War is not a thing one wants.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

War is the business of barbarians.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

War is a crime perpetrated by hearts hardened like weapons

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

War is the science of destruction.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

War is an abstraction.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

War is a last and terrible defense of even a righteous cause, and sets at defiance all the ordinary laws and customs of society.