H. L. Mencken Quotes

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

War is the science of destruction.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

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

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

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 is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

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

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

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

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.

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

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

War? War is an organized bore.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

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

War makes early risers of us all.

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.