Quotes on “war”

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Of course you know, this means war.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.