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Quotes about war
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. (Cruise Tom)
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. (Cruise Tom)
Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial. (Cruise Tom)
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. (Cruise Tom)
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive. (Cruise Tom)
Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. (Cruise Tom)
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. (Cruise Tom)
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. (Cruise Tom)
I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul. (Cruise Tom)
There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it. (Cruise Tom)
O Lord our God, help us to 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... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen. (Cruise Tom)
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. (Cruise Tom)
So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage? (Cruise Tom)
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. (Cruise Tom)
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. (Cruise Tom)
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share. (Cruise Tom)
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. (Cruise Tom)
The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war. (Cruise Tom)
War is just another government program. (Cruise Tom)
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. (Cruise Tom)
As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure. (Cruise Tom)
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. (Cruise Tom)
Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free. (Cruise Tom)
President Bush said this Iraq situation looks like 'the rerun of a bad movie.' Well sure, there's a Bush in the White House, the economy's going to hell, we're going to war over oil. I've seen this movie, haven't I? (Cruise Tom)
In California, 50 women protested the impending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president. (Cruise Tom)
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