Quotes About Modern Warfare

#1. Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

Peter Ustinov

#4. Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

Gabriel Kolko

#5. The trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick.

Gordon R. Dickson

#6. I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.

Craig Fairbrass

#7. It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event

Herbert Read

#8. In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

Nancy Gibbs

#9. 'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.

Kevin Garnett

#10. Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

Chiang Kai-shek

#11. 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.

Lester B. Pearson

#12. The purpose of modern warfare is to slay as many civilians as possible.

David Mitchell

#13. Pray state, this day, on one side of a sheet of paper, how the Royal navy is being adapted to meet the conditions of modern warfare.

Michael Paterson

#14. That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off ... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

Iain Banks

#15. More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.

Philip Hammond

#16. I'll usually stay up a little later than my wife and play Xbox, a little 'Modern Warfare 3.' Or I'll have a friend over, and we'll play board games until late at night. I'll always choose fun over sleep.

Rich Sommer

#17. Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

Frank Knox

#18. It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

Steven Pinker

#19. Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine.

Martin Van Creveld

#20. An ungentlemanly war it will be,' he grumbled. 'Will I lead my men with a sword? Ah, but no! I will lead my men with a dirty revolver in my hand. Parbleu! Such is modern warfare! A machine could do the whole cursed thing better -- we shall all be nothing but machines in this war.

Radclyffe Hall

#21. I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#22. We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

Susan Davis

#23. As a side effect of modern warfare, we had the peculiar privilege of watching the destruction of our country on television.

Sara Novic

#24. Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.

Eisaku Sato

#25. The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the
machine without raising the general standard of living.

George Orwell

#26. I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.

Robertson Davies

#27. In the history of modern warfare, it is doubtful if there are any generals at the top of a command pyramid who have displayed such collective incompetence as these two officers.

Shiv Kunal Verma

#28. Marriage, [ ... ], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Malcolm Bradbury

#29. Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

Stuart Chase

#30. In a battle which might interest scholars of modern urban warfare, the Conduit Street Comanche whipped the tar out of an irregular band of crybaby destitutes who pledged allegiance to the Watson's departed mucker-wallah.

Kim Newman

#31. I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead
that's environmentally sound.

James Crumley

#32. Don't get mad, get even,

Robert F. Kennedy

#33. If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

Anand Gopal

#34. That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

Richard Hough