Edmund Waller Quotes

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

I like war.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

War is the science of destruction.

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

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

War is the trade of Kings.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

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

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.

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.

History has been the history of warfare.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.