War Is..............

[KoKo]

Quotations about War.......................


Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover


There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ~Havelock Ellis


Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. ~Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians


Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? ~Holly Near


The pioneers of a warless world are the who refuse military service. ~Albert Einstein


O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. ~Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"


The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ~Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945



The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. ~Louis Simpson


The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ~George Patton


The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians. ~Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action


You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ~Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929


Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. ~James Frederick Green


I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? ~Thomas Jefferson


War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. ~Charles Evans Hughes

A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb


The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley


Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953

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[opihimoimoi]

1. War is where only a few gets rich...Peace is where everyone is richer/safer/happier

[marmar]

2. ..... is a racket.

Smedley Darlington Butler had it right.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. A great hero!!!

[genie_weenie]

5. When I mentioned this quote and his speeches to

young jarheads, many were surprised a marine and 2x MoH winner could have been such a terrorist lover and emboldener of americas enemies...

[orpupilofnature57]

7. And was a saviour of Democracy and his enemy was Fascism!

And terrorists like Prescott Bush.

[rasputin1952]

11. They need to look up Smedley...he was a patriot, a true

patriot.

He did what was asked of him, throughout his career, right up until he reitred as the Commandant of the USMC.

He realized that Marines were being killed and maimed for the enrichment of the produce importers, and others, and he had the fortitude to call it into public view.

:patriot:

[Selatius]

23. You're not serious when you say they thought he was a terrorist appeaser, are you?

If so, that's really sad.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. War should be as violent and destructive as possible ,so people Don't ever want..

one again ~ William Sherman








http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth

[rasputin1952]

12. Too bad that doesn't work out to the positive....

history has been profoundly affected by those who feel they've tired to make an impact by showing carnage...it has only created more carnage....:(

[orpupilofnature57]

13. I Agree ,Sherman killed more indians than small pox . his quote not..

...mine ,Mine is makeaaa do loooova nota a Mort`e.

[rasputin1952]

15. There have been so many attempts to make war so horrid that

it would not be waged, and in every case, war just got bloodier and more foul.

Gatling guns

Maxim machineguns

Repeatng rifles

Artillery

Bombs

Nukes

Every time, war becomes more efficient...death is multiplied...and except for those who have to fight, no one understands...:(

[orpupilofnature57]

19. Your Absolutely right ! War is a result of misguided Industry and Media.

[TahitiNut]

21. Sadly, people forget when they stop listening to their parents ... who were there!

It's a sad commentary that very few listen to those who actually experienced it. After all, they weren't "smart enough" to get out of it. :puke:

[orpupilofnature57]

31. Misanthrope Shyster Media !

[patrice]

6. War is Social Abortion.

And victory does not depend on body count. I saw that, during the build up for the Invasion of Iraq, somewhere on line in research about the military. I should try to look it up again, because it shocked me to read that Killing =/= Victory.

As a Soldier, you're faced with a situation in which no matter how many people you kill and no matter whether you lose your own life or not, victory is determined by something else.

Shit!! that is! CRAZY.

[maine_raptor]

8. My favorite quote

"It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it."

Robert E. Lee

[orpupilofnature57]

14. Our most brilliant soldier of all time!

[tabasco]

28. Ours? Not mine.

A brilliant commander but not for my country.

[orpupilofnature57]

32. Antebellum or America? he taught Our Army more than they

would have learned if every man had gone to West Point.

[tabasco]

33. Lee took an oath at West Point. He should have honored it.

The war may not have lasted so long and many lives spared. .

[orpupilofnature57]

34. A valid point.

[baby_mouse]

9. .... a useless waste.

Just a useless, pathetic, soul-less, worthless, pointless waste of everything, lives, time, resources, EVERYTHING. It's just pure negativity. Pure evil.

You can't reason with pure evil. War is just disgusting. It's the oldest and ugliest enemy of humankind. It serves no purpose whatsoever.

[kiki]

10. ...the rich man's terrorism. N/T

[The2ndWheel]

16. a large scale, organized effort to destroy diversity

for the sake of production.

[Annces]

17. a human invention n/t

[Bucky]

18. War means never having to say you're sorry (assuming you win, of course)

[orpupilofnature57]

20. Excuse me ,thats Love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story

[TahitiNut]

22. Same thing.

:evilgrin:

[Bucky]

25. Plus, if you're the "winner" in love, you actually *do* have to apologize.

And then pray she's not a "talker"

[orpupilofnature57]

30. About 1000 times a day ,for 32 yrs.

[KamaAina]

24. ...hell.

Or, as we used to say during the first Iraq oil war, "War is Shell". :P

[slowry]

26. War will become something of the past.

Whether we're here to enjoy the peace is another matter entirely.

[AlCzervik]

27. a business and business is good--if you're a defense contractor.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters."

African Proverb