Dougray Scott Quotes

I like war.

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.

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

People like to talk about war.

Every country in every war fights for freedom.

If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

We want to glorify war—the world’s only hygiene.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

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

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.