Warfare Quotes

Love is a kind of warfare. (Ovid)
Warfare is the way of deception. View quote
Sun Tzu
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare. View quote
Heinz Guderian
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. View quote
Sun Tzu
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. View quote
Joachim du Bellay
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. View quote
James Madison
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. View quote
Margaret Mead
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. (Orson Welles)
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust. View quote
James Mattis
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression. View quote
Che Guevara
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Soldier rest thy warfare oer, Sleep the sleep thast knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. View quote
Walter Scott
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. View quote
Cyprian
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. (Constance Baker Motley)
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. View quote
Howard Zinn
One will readily agree that any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may posses, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time, the American generals showed themselves to be very advanced in the tactical handling of their forces, although we had to wait until the Patton Army in France to see the most astonishing achievements in mobile warfare. View quote
Erwin Rommel