Lafayette C. Baker Quotes

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

War is not a thing one wants.

War is an abstraction.

War is the science of destruction.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

War is a contagion.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent 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.

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

Accursed be he that first invented war.

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

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

That was a declaration of war

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

Nations at war are wild beasts.

I don't like wars. Any wars.

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

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