Milton Sanford Mayer Quotes

Wars ruin armies.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

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

I like war.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

An army is a nation; it is one of the vices of our age.

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.

Military men are the scourges of the earth.

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

War is murder writ large.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

History has been the history of warfare.

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

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

The great questions of the day are not to be decided by speeches and majorities ... but by iron and blood.

I have to send people out to get killed.