Aggressive Quote by Frans de Waal

Armies are not only for offensives.

— Bashar al-Assad

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.

— Jacque Fresco

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

— Mona Caird

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

— Alberto Moravia

An army is a strange composite masterpiece, which strength results from an enormous sum total of utter weaknesses. Thus only can we explain a…

— Zoheb

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits,…

— Gerald Scarfe

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle … They conquer by strategy.

— Sun Tzu

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent…

— Terry Pratchett

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is…

— Woodrow Wilson

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

— Rita Mae Brown

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

— Victor Hugo

Wars often begin with enthusiastic vigor but typically settle into costly, dirty business characterized for soldiers by fear, frustration, and loneliness.

— Stanley A. McChrystal