War Quote by Mark T. Sullivan

“On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.”

— Tim O'Brien

“They thirsted to fight because the war existed, and because it had been officially declared admirable and patriotic to kill. That was enough.”

— Noah Gordon

“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.”

— Sun Tzu

“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...”

— Slava Pilotoff

“War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.”

— John Steinbeck

“War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“That war had almost torn the country in two, but the railroad, men said, had bound it back together, the tracks and ties like…

— Peter Ho Davies

“War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“conquer an army’s heart and the battle is already won.”

— Morgan Rice

“By noon, Pino was sitting on the steps of La Scala where he could see the front of the Hotel Regina and the Daimler…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There was a…

— William Golding

“No victory, no conquest justified a single death, a man starved, frozen, lacerated, a single orphaned child. All war wanted was itself.”

— Willy Peter Reese