Petrarch Quotes

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

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

We made war to the end—to the very end of the end.

I like war.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

War is the science of destruction.

In violence, we forget who we are.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out

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

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

Big armies have always brought, not peace, but war which has ended in a hate that in due course brings another war.

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

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

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

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

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