10,941 Quotes About War

Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)

The sinews of war are often gathered by charities promoting world peace.

There are battles that can’t be won.

Vojny sú najmä o stratách.

The answer to the question of why we have war is this: we have war because we have war. War is overdetermined; its supporting norms are self-fueling and robustly redundant. Wars produce the conditions for future wars.

Suspecting the evil behavior of its neighbor, a national security state seeks to protect itself by employing the same amoral or immoral methods, thus proving to its neighbor that it too must adopt such Machiavellian methods. The entire system operates at the lowest possible level. The Soviet Union used spies and executed spies, and the U.S. did the same while each proclaimed the moral high ground to their citizens.

He did not ask me to shoot him; perhaps at the very end he loved his vanishing life.

Without a full understanding of the harm caused by war, it is impossible to understand the most profitable way of conducting it

a personal relationship in an impersonal world