War games quotes
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Bertrand Russell
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. – Jose Narosky
In war, truth is the first casualty. – Aeschylus
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. – Winston Churchill
War is what happens when politicians fail. – Fidel Castro
Victory belongs to the most persevering. – Napoleon Bonaparte
War is hell, but actual war is a motherf***er. – Karl Marlantes
War is chaos made into an art form. – George R.R. Martin
The only way to win a war is to not fight it. – Sun Tzu
War is not about dying for your country, it’s about making the other bastard die for his. – General George S. Patton
In war, there are no winners, only survivors. – Charles de Gaulle
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. – G.K. Chesterton
War is a dreadful thing, and unjust wars are among the worst of evils. – Leo Tolstoy
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. – John Stuart Mill
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. – Ernest Hemingway
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. – General George S. Patton Jr.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. – General Douglas MacArthur
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein
A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow. – General George S. Patton
There is no substitute for victory. – General Douglas MacArthur
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. – Thomas Jefferson
War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood
The only thing that could harm you in war is death, and that is a very small risk. – George R.R. Martin
You can’t say civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. – Will Rogers
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer. – Thomas Jefferson
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. – John Arbuthnot Fisher
In war, there are no second prizes for the runner-up. – Omar Bradley
In war, there is no room for mistakes. – George S. Patton
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. – Nelson Mandela
The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution. – Thomas Jefferson
War is where the old and bitter go to die and where young men and women go to become old and bitter. – George R.R. Martin
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. – William Tecumseh Sherman
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. – G.K. Chesterton
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. – Aristotle
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. – Jimmy Carter
The only way to win a war is to avoid fighting it. – John Green
War is all hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. – George S. Patton
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 until you can. – Winston Churchill
War is a series of catastrophes that result in a victory. – Albert Pike
In war, there is only one favor you can do for a friend: die for him. – John Green
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. – Cormac McCarthy
War, for all its destruction, has the power to determine history like little else. – George R.R. Martin
War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory. – Albert Pike
War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory. – Albert Pike
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. – Sun Tzu
Only the dead have seen the end of war. – Plato
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. – Ernest Hemingway