Quotes about Warfare
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
— Jane Goodall
Old men make war, young men fight and die
— Winston Churchill
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.
— Ayn Rand
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
— Henry David Thoreau
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
— Alfred Nobel
The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.
— George Washington
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way
— Will Rogers
God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.
— George Otis
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
— Ignatius of Loyola
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
— Hudson Taylor
God is on the side of the big battalions.
— George Bernard Shaw