William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

War is at its best barbarism.

War is not civilized.

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

War is the business of barbarians.

… a war of extermination.

What is war but murder and theft committed by great numbers on great numbers?

War is brutal, barbaric and bloody.

War is a profane thing.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

War is in the eyes.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

War is the science of destruction.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate 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.

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

In violence, we forget who we are.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

War dehumanizes everyone.

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