Jeannette Rankin Quotes

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

War is the science of destruction.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

We are muddled into war.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

War is an abstraction.

Nations at war are wild beasts.

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

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

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

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.

War is not a thing one wants.

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

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

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

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

War is a contagion.

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.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

War is the business of barbarians.