--- title: "5 World war Quotes By Paul Virilio" description: "5 World war quotes by Paul Virilio. Plus more from Paul Virilio and more World war sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/paul-virilio-2130_aircraft_if-you-look-at-the-gulf-war-or-new-milit_1667605.jpg" --- > [If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/if-you-look-at-the-gulf-war-or-new-military-technologies-they-are/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/paul-virilio-2130_aircraft_if-you-look-at-the-gulf-war-or-new-milit_1667605.jpg) > [World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/world-war-two-was-a-world-war-in-space-it-spread-from-europe-to-japan/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/767/paul-virilio-2130_cases_world-war-two-was-a-world-war-in-space-i_1848502.png) > [Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/earth-is-already-being-integrated-into-the-pentagon-and-the-man-in/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a8/paul-virilio-2130_boat_earth-is-already-being-integrated-into-t_2404445.png) > [For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/for-instance-the-persian-gulf-war-was-a-miniature-world-war-it-took/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/032/paul-virilio-2130_areas_for-instance-the-persian-gulf-war-was-a_2797540.png) > [As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/as-i-have-said-many-times-before-i-was-among-the-first-people-to/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d0/paul-virilio-2130_experience_as-i-have-said-many-times-before-i-was-a_3199659.png) ## Other authors on World war - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 29 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/kurt-vonnegut/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-captain-hank-bracker-suppresed-i-rise-16283.jpg) Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/captain-hank-bracker-suppresed-i-rise/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-arthur-h-14944.jpg) Jean-Marie Le Pen 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/jean-marie-le-pen/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-doris-lessing-30223.jpg) Doris Lessing 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/doris-lessing/) - [Charles River Editors 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/charles-river-editors/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-zbigniew-brzezinski-97295.jpg) Zbigniew Brzezinski 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/zbigniew-brzezinski/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tony-judt-91834.jpg) Tony Judt 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/tony-judt/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-margaret-macmillan-63431.jpg) Margaret MacMillan 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/margaret-macmillan/) ## More by Paul Virilio > [“It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/it-is-in-fact-impossible-clearly-to-distinguish-economic-war-from/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/there-is-a-french-expression-that-says-to-be-exposed-to-an-accident/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/there-cannot-be-an-animal-body-without-a-territorial-body-three/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-blinding-hiroshima-flash-literally-photographed-the-shadow-cast/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/gps-not-only-played-a-large-and-delocalizing-role-in-the-war-in/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-gulf-war-may-not-have-occurred-in-the-actual-global-space-but-it/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-cinema-was-certainly-an-art-but-television-can-t-be-because-it-is/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber' Harris used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/what-happened-in-kosovo-was-the-exact-reversal-of-what-happened-in/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-technologies-of-virtual-reality-are-attempting-to-make-us-see/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/there-are-eyes-everywhere-no-blind-spot-left-what-shall-we-dream-of/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [I am of course thinking here about new planes such as the Sukhois. There is very little discussion about such developments but, for me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/i-am-of-course-thinking-here-about-new-planes-such-as-the-sukhois/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/moreover-i-would-like-to-say-that-the-sort-of-polar-inertia-we/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/how-can-we-live-if-there-is-no-more-here-and-everything-is-now/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-simulator-is-the-stage-in-between-television-and-virtual-reality/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) > [These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/these-new-technologies-try-to-make-virtual-reality-more-powerful-than/) [Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world-war/paul-virilio/#itemlist", "name": "5 World war Quotes By Paul Virilio", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. 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