Douglas Macgregor Quotes

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

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

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.

War is the science of destruction.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

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

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

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.

The sad reality of war is that if you are going to be in day-to-day combat, there are going to be casualties.

The fight against the partisans must be carried out with all means at our disposal and with utmost severity. I will protect any commander who exceeds our usual restraint in the choice of methods in executing one's orders is better than failure or neglect to act.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

They target and try to kill as many of our civilians as they can. We do not target civilians..

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

I like war.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

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

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.