Christopher Isherwood Quotes

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

War is the science of destruction.

Haven’t we learned that when you go to war, the outcome is unpredictable.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

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

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

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

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

Accursed be he that first invented war.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

War is the province of danger.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

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

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

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

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

War makes rattling good history; but peace is poor reading.