F. L. Lucas Quotes

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

War is not civilized.

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

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

The world is too violent right now.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

We are muddled into war.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

War is hell.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

… a war of the world

The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries. All empires have been cemented in blood; and, in those early periods, when the race of mankind began first to form themselves into parties and combinations, the first effect of the combination, and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed, and best calculated, was their mutual destruction.