George S. Patton Quotes

War,--the trade of barbarians!

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

The brazen throat of war.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

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

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

War is the science of destruction.

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

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

It is hazardous to engage an enemy who longs rather for battle than for victory.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

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

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

War makes early risers of us all.

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

If we have to go to war, we will.

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

War is death's feast.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

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

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?