Kate Forsyth Quotes

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

War is not neat. It's not tidy. It's a mess.

The brazen throat of war.

War is a profane thing.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

War is at its best barbarism.

If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

War! War! War! I fear it will swallow up everything good and useful.

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

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

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

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

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

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

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