Takashi Murakami Quotes

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

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.

The space genre is timeless.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

I was never a fan of sci-fi or space stuff.

Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

War is the father and king of all.

Most of the movies about the future show aliens descending from outer space determined to blow up the world, and somehow they always begin or end with Washington D.C.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.