Direct Quote by George S. Patton

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

— George S. Patton

It is not a war. It is murder.

— Noam Chomsky

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is…

— Karl Von Clausewitz

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with…

— Howard Zinn

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change…

— Margaret Deland

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption…

— Germaine Greer

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

— David Starr Jordan

It was not war, it was murder.

— Daniel Harvey Hill