Martin Van Creveld 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.

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

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

If we have to go to war, we will.

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

War? War is an organized bore.

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

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

War is the science of destruction.

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.

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

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

The brazen throat of war.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

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

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

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

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

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

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.

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

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.