Kindlehighlight Quote by Thucydides

“Or, as had happened so often in new territories, one army fought with weapons, manpower, disease—whatever they had—until the other population was simply eradicated.”

— Brian Kilmeade

“In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it…

— C.S. Harris

“great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” And”

— Lee Child

“Sherman’s army, after all the depletions, numbered about sixty thousand effective men. All weak men had been left to hold the rear, and those…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent…

— George Orwell

“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“Our people are not calculated to be confined in garrisons or kept in any particular service; they soon grow troublesome and uneasy by reflecting…

— Richard M. Ketchum

“From what I’ve seen, the operations of war are constituted less of glorious attacks and valiant defences and more of an ongoing succession of…

— Steven Pressfield

“The English could bring into this tight area four hundred and forty-eight thousand soldiers, but they could not find space in their ships for…

— James A. Michener

“the nature of soldiers in certain instances could turn well meaning, good people into tools of oppression.”

— Andreas Christensen

“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