Will Rogers Quotes

I think war is a dangerous place.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

War is death's feast.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

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

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

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

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.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

War? War is an organized bore.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

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

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.