Antisthenes Quotes

Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

I think war is a dangerous place.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

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

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.