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Quotes about war
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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. (Cruise Tom)
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. (Cruise Tom)
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. (Cruise Tom)
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration. (Cruise Tom)
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. (Cruise Tom)
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. (Cruise Tom)
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. (Cruise Tom)
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. (Cruise Tom)
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. (Cruise Tom)
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. (Cruise Tom)
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. (Cruise Tom)
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. (Cruise Tom)
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. (Cruise Tom)
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. (Cruise Tom)
Suppose they gave a war, and no one came? (Cruise Tom)
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. (Cruise Tom)
Wars are made to make debt. (Cruise Tom)
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. (Cruise Tom)
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. (Cruise Tom)
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. (Cruise Tom)
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. (Cruise Tom)
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. (Cruise Tom)
War is a contagion. (Cruise Tom)
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity. (Cruise Tom)
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (Cruise Tom)
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