Lewis Mumford Quotes

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Killing is the payoff of war.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

Terrour ... makes short warres

Haven’t we learned that when you go to war, the outcome is unpredictable.

Israel cannot afford a war of attrition.

For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

War is the science of destruction.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

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

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

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 means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.