Attrition Quote by Kate Forsyth

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to…

— Charles de Gaulle

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on…

— Gertrude Stein

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

— Bertrand Russell

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more…

— Hans F. Sennholz

“Here's what you need to know: some cliches are true, and war is definitely hell. It's being afraid all the time, and when you're…

— Kristin Hannah

War is like love, it always finds a way.

— Bertolt Brecht

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible…

— Che Guevara