Yann Martel Quotes

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.

History has been the history of warfare.

The troops are at war, but the Pentagon is not.

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

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

I voted to send people to war.

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

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

I like war.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

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

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Quickness is the essence of the war.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.