Quotes About Warfare

#1. But that's just the way it was surviving in America's public schools. Every day was a struggle. Every day was psychological warfare, and if you didn't stay sharp, the system would grind you into human pencil shavings.

Jonathan LaPoma

#2. Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised ... techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#3. In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.

Jay Leno

#4. In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

Noam Chomsky

#5. 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

#6. Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

Steve Stockman

#7. All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.

Jane Porter

#8. In the great Bible passage on spiritual warfare, the word stand appears four times, while the word translated wrestle, battle, fight, or struggle appears only once. In essence, God is asking you to spend the majority of your time in warfare standing!

Pedro Okoro

#9. There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in this world. Sin will not spare for one day. There is no safety but in a constant warfare for those who desire deliverance from sin's perplexing rebellion.

John Owen

#10. Business is warfare; don't get into it if you are afraid to draw blood.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#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. You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

Orson Scott Card

#13. The constant bombardment of the paranormal through media (Reality TV, Movies, Magazines etc.) is desensitizing our understanding of the cosmic warfare that is being waged by Satan.

Jonah Books

#14. I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Gavin O'Connor

#15. Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

Caleb Carr

#16. Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm the notion that warfare is a disease.

Greg Mortenson

#17. And God would bid His warfare cease,
Saying all things were well;
And softly make a rosy peace,
A peace of Heaven with Hell.

William Butler Yeats

#18. For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

Ernst Zundel

#19. Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.

Chuck Pfarrer

#20. Spiritual warfare is the term;
political correctness is the weapon.

Barry Knauer

#21. The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Calvin Trillin

#22. That's where spiritual warfare begins - leaving our own methods of filling our gaping holes at the well and allowing Jesus to fill every thirsty, needy place with His Living Water.

Mary E. DeMuth

#23. Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.

Yoshijiro Umezu

#24. It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.

Douglas Alexander

#25. Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle

#26. Since all premodern state ideology was inseparable from religion, warfare inevitably acquired a sacral element.

Karen Armstrong

#27. I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

Bernard Goldberg

#28. Beyond your dormitories, a world is on fire and you are kindled by underwear. Beyond your fraternities, history unfolds daily - warfare, bombings, wholesale slaughter, and you are oblivious of it all. Well, you won't be oblivious for long! You can be as stupid as you like, can

Philip Roth

#29. With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

Dustin Lynch

#30. Just as Alexander wept upon learning he had no more enemies to conquer, finite players come to rue their victories unless they see them quickly challenged by new danger. A war fought to end all wars, in the strategy of finite play, only breeds universal warfare.

James P. Carse

#31. As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources ... The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.

James Davison Hunter

#32. Passion, Baird reckoned, was what would take men across the river and up the breach. Damn scientific soldiering now. The science of siege warfare had opened the city, but only a screaming and insane passion would take men inside.

Bernard Cornwell

#33. Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

Bill Veeck

#34. The earth is four-fifths water, that's a lot of room to hide, so the great trick of naval warfare has always been to find the enemy before he finds you. You're finished, if you can't do that, and all the courage and sacrifice in the world simply adds up to a lost war.

Alan Furst

#35. I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

Steven Hatfill

#36. The weapons of our warfare can only be exercised in the place of prayer.

Pedro Okoro

#37. Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Heinz Guderian

#38. Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

Pope Paul VI

#39. To sound off with a cheerful 'give me liberty or give me death' sort of argument in the face of the unprecedented and inconceivable potential of destruction in nuclear warfare is not even hollow; it is downright ridiculous.

Hannah Arendt

#40. Warfare is theatre, I have said, and the essence of theatre is aritifce. What we show, we will not do. What we don't show, we will do.

Steven Pressfield

#41. Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

Herman Wouk

#42. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

Sun Tzu

#43. Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Fredrik Bajer

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

David Mitchell

#45. Ignore insults and provocations from the enemy, it's psychological warfare. Ignore the same from team mates if they accuse you of camping: as soon as your kills begin to pile up, they'll shut up.

Alberto Tabone

#46. This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.

James Carville

#47. When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation
not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

Geneen Roth

#48. This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

Philippa Gregory

#49. Describing a Navy SEAL-
I have no idea what 'unconventional warfare' really means, but i'm pretty sure i was on my way to meet a man who could kill me in 7 different ways with a flip-flop.

Dave Gorman

#50. I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

Stefan Heym

#51. We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

Ferdinand Buisson

#52. People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth.

Joe Haldeman

#53. I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard - I must keep armed.

Billy Graham

#54. There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#55. The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

George S. Patton

#56. According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#57. National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

George Will

#58. It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

Andrew Niccol

#59. We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#60. Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.

Epictetus

#61. Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues.

Peter Rodman

#62. 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

#63. The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

George Orwell

#64. If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship.

Cristina Marrero

#65. Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

William C. Brown

#66. Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush.

David Limbaugh

#67. The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.

J. Oswald Sanders

#68. Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

Tinker Hatfield

#69. If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.

Michael Winter

#70. Don't attempt to fight the enemy in your own strength. You will experience burnout, and you will fail. Don't even think about it! The key is to engage in spiritual warfare God's way. And that is by resting in him and fighting from victory, not for victory!

Pedro Okoro

#71. The introduction of radar, a completely new way to see, in the Second World War altered the basis of warfare more profoundly than any of the inventions that had marked the industrialization of combat.

Louis Brown

#72. Originating in large scale electronic warfare and anti-jamming technologies for the battlefield devised by two Russian immigrants, these now one-chip systems can fit in a handset and enable intercommunication among the towers of Babel in urban America.

George Gilder

#73. The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

Grant Morrison

#74. Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Margaret Mead

#75. You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

John McCain

#76. His trials were trench warfare.

Anonymous

#77. This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

James Forrestal

#78. Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

George Tenet

#79. Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

Jim Dunnigan

#80. Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#81. Left unstewarded, anger, resentment, fear, frustration - any form non-Love takes - can grow into all sorts of warfare, internal and external.

Kelly Corbet

#82. In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.

Graham Chapman

#83. Billy stood there politely, giving the marksman another chance. It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman should be given a second chance

Kurt Vonnegut

#84. My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

Gerard Verschuuren

#85. Then it came to me: I was asking the wrong question. The right one is: Where is God in gang warfare? And the answer is, The same place God is in Darfur, and in our alcoholism, and when children are bullied: being crucified.

Anne Lamott

#86. All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Sun Tzu

#87. Spiritual warfare is very real. There is a furious, fierce, and ferocious battle raging in the realm of the spirit between the forces of God and the forces of evil. Warfare happens every day, all the time. Whether you believe it or not, you are in a battlefield. You are in warfare.

Pedro Okoro

#88. For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day toward the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men.

Pope Paul VI

#89. Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

Wendell Berry

#90. Understanding future warfare is the most important responsibility of those who must defend a nation from future enemies!

Perry M Smith

#91. Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

Charles Krauthammer

#92. Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.

Charles Stanley

#93. The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

John Steinbeck

#94. Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#95. In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

Margaret Thatcher

#96. Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

Pope Francis

#97. Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

Stephen Greenblatt

#98. Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Lou Brock

#99. 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

#100. 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