Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

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

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

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

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

When I'm fighting it's just search and destroy.

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

I don’t care what colour you are, I don’t care what country you’re from; we’re all human beings and fighting’s in our DNA. We get it, and we like it.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

War is the science of destruction.

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.