War and Peace

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn. J.R.R.

 

O! now, forever Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove’s dread clamors counterfeit, Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone!

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

The Real War Will Never Get in the Books . And so good-bye to the war.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

My subject is War, and the pity of War.

We speak of war gods, but not of mathematician gods, poet or painter gods, or inventor gods. Nobody has ever called me a god; I am at best a sage. We worship all the conquerors, but have only one Prince of Peace, who was horribly put to death, and if he lived in these islands, would have some difficulty in getting exempted from military service as a conscientious objector.

To win a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence; the highestexcellence is to subdue the enemy’s armywithout fighting at all.

There has never been a state that has benefited from an extended war.

there are so many people dead and so many sea-walls that the red sun used to split, and so many heads that the boats hit, and so many hands that have closed around kisses, and so many things I would like to forget.

Soldiers! When it is announced that a respected and beloved leader has died for our freedom in the course of a battle, do not grieve, do not lose hope! Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peacetime as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

 

The war that will end war.

Then, then we’ll end that stupid crime, that devil’s madness—War.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

The board is set; the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time. J. R. R.

 

Treacherous generals: look at my dead house, look at broken Spain.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

War is a vital matter of state.

Warfare is the art of deceit.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot