Susan Glaspell Quotes

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

If we have to go to war, we will.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

War is the trade of Kings.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

History has been the history of warfare.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

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

When men cease to fight — they cease to be — Men

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

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

War? War is an organized bore.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

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