War and Peace

They shoot the white girl first.

Towards thee I roll thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Warfare . . . is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

[ Ambassador Tarentino, played by Louis Calhern, speaking :] This means war!

[ Groucho Marx speaking :] Come, Kapellmeister, let the violas throb! My regiment leaves at dawn.

Many people think it is impossible for the guerrilla to exist long in the enemy’s realm. Such a belief reveals a lack of understanding of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water and the latter to the fish that swim in it.

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.