Gertrude Stein Quotes

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.

Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

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.

We are engaged in a struggle that is fought on many fronts and in many forms.

Fighting has been a part of my life for my entire existence.

War? War is an organized bore.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

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.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

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.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

we train for war and fight to win.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

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

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is too strange to process alone.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.