Bruce Sterling Quotes

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

War is a last and terrible defense of even a righteous cause, and sets at defiance all the ordinary laws and customs of society.

Head for jihad and have your guns ready.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

War is the science of destruction.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

War is not a thing one wants.

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

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a 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.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

War is an abstraction.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.