Battle Quote by Steven Pinker

“States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around…

— Steven Pinker

“Except in geographical scale, tribal warfare could be and often was total war in every modern sense. Like states and empires, smaller societies can…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

In tribal society, the most important thing to do when civilians are killed in a skirmish is to acknowledge the deaths, and provide compensation.…

— Greg Mortenson

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you…

— Tom Clancy

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

— John O. Brennan

“I’ve seen a lot of battlefields during my time in the cavalry, Rob, but I’ve never seen anything like that.  There were dead Indians…

— Keith R. Baker

Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

— David M. Shoup

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

“Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by…

— Joe Haldeman

In every and all battles, one either kills or is killed. However, very often even he who kills happens to be killed. And WAR…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody matters, every…

— George W. Bush