Ilya Ehrenburg Quotes

Killing, and nothing else, is what the army is for, and the only thing it can properly build is killers and killees.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

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

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

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

When you go to war, it’s very important to kill the right people

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

Wars ruin armies.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

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

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

War makes early risers of us all.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

War is death's feast.

War is murder writ large.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

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

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

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

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

War is the trade of Kings.

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.