Simone Weil Quotes

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

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

An insurgency is the most difficult to fight of all military activities.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

The combat man isn't the same clean-cut lad because you don't fight a kraut by Marquis of Queensberry rules. You shoot him in the back, you blow him apart with mines, you kill or maim him the quickest and most effective way you can with the least danger to yourself. He does the same to you.

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

War? War is an organized bore.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

I think I was unprepared for war.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

Every US President has to have a war.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.