Paul Virilio Quotes

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

War makes early risers of us all.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

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

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.