Heinrich Himmler Quotes

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

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

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

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.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

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

War is never cheap or easy.

My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.

Bloody Ground

War is the science of destruction.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

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

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

War is not a thing one wants.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

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

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.