Peter Arnett Quotes

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

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

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

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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

Wars break things; they break stories.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

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

Wars ruin armies.

That war will never be won militarily.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

Destroyer of Villages

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..