Len Deighton Quotes

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

War is capitalism with the gloves off …

The principal cause of war is war itself.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

We made war to the end—to the very end of the end.

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

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.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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

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

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

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.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

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.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.