Roger McGough Quotes

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

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

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

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

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

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

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

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.

I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was the biggest conflagration that this particular planet had seen. There was a lot of talk about utopia and how it was possible, and then, because of these events that for one reason or another couldn't be stopped, the idea of utopia went out the window.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

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.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

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

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.