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