Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to those who have no experience of it). --Erasmus

War makes the victor stupid and the vanquished vengeful. --Nietzsche

The belief in the possibility of a short decicive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. --Robert Lynd

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. --Will Rogers

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to become angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy. --Aristotle

We play the game with the bravery of being out of range.
-Roger Waters

"We make war that we may live in peace."
- Aristotle

"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
- Albert Einstein

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
- Dwight David Eisenhower

"If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say."
- Jack Handey

"If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade."
- Jack Handey

Hilarious.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
-Albert Einstein

"No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons."
- Croesus of Lydia

"In war there is no substitute for victory."
- Douglas MacArthur

"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative."
- Golda Meir

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

"US Paratroopers provide the enemy with the maximum opportunity to give his life for his country."
- 1986 Recruitment Poster, US Army

"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting." (on those behind the 9/11 attacks)
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."
- Gary Wills

"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."

"No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale."
"Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination."

And from the novel Exterminator!:
"....If a woman or a good looking boy fell into their hands they were torn to pieces in the struggle for possession; and the survivors were left to cut each other's throats."
"Well, there's no need to be that messy! Why waste a good lookin' boy? Mother lovin' American Army, run by old women, many of them are religious, my God. Hangin' American soldiers for rapin' and murderin' civilians?!" Old Sarge bellows from here to eternity, "what the bloody fuckin' Hell are civilians for? Soldiers' pay."


All these quotes are by William S. Burroughs. I'm a big fan of Ol' Bull, me.
(the Exterminator! bit I typed from memory, so it might be off by a word or two)

only the dead have seen the end of war- Plato

"Wars not make one great." --Yoda

I think this short clip sums up how terrible war can be, and how with great power comes great responsibility.

Warning: Graphic images of war and death.

http://raf.union.rpi.edu/downloads/apache_flir.mpeg

"War fucking sucks, and it's pathetic that thousands of years of human existence still haven't taught all of us our lessons."

Ara Ajizian

"War, what is it good for? absolutely nothing." - Starr

"War is over (if you want it)" - Lennon

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

-Voltaire

"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."

-George S. Patton

You can push them out of a plane, you can march them off a cliff,
you can send them off to die on some God-forsaken rock,
but for some reason you can't slap them.
Grandpa Simpson

There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy.
Bart Simpson

dont get shot in the ass



-me

You can't say civilization doesn't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. -Will Rogers

War is the trade of Kings. -Dryden

War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. -Orwell

We're talking war quotes, not porn quotes.

sorry, i saw that in bukakke wars II

It's: "The object of war isn't to die for your country, it's to make the other sonofabitch die for his."

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" -

- Abraham Lincoln

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace - Benjamin Franklin

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. - Eleanor Roosevelt

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Gandhi

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent - Issac Asimov

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. - Ronald Reagan

Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction, I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have.
- Jack Handey

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. - Buddha.