Steven Weber Quotes

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

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.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.

I'd have to do a lot of things to fight Cyborg.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

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 war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

War is the father and king of all.

Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.