William E. Gladstone Quotes

War is not neat. It's not tidy. It's a mess.

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

Destroyer of Villages

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

War is a profane thing.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

War is at its best barbarism.

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Then comes the catastrophe. Then the great mobilization will take place in Europe; 16-18 million men, the flower of the various nations, armed with the best tools of death, will enter the field as enemies. But, I am convinced, that behind the great mobilization there stands the great havoc. It will not come through our party, but rather yours. You are driving things to the limit. You are leading us to catastrophe. You will reap what you have sown

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

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

War is the business of barbarians.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.