Jonathan Swift Quotes

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

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.

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

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

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

The brazen throat of war.

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

War is the science of destruction.

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

War? War is an organized bore.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

If we have to go to war, we will.

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.

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

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.

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

War is death's feast.

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

War is the father and king of all.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

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