Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [381-400] of 484 War quotesWar QuotesWar Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Character is the single most important ingredient of leadership. Proper leadership would have prevented the wars in Kosovo and Somalia.~ General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Worse than war is the very fear of war.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca And yet life, Lucilius, is really a battle.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Just as an enemy is more dangerous to a retreating army, so every trouble that fortune brings attacks us all the harder if we yield and turn our backs.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? There are no limits to our greed, none to our cruelty. And as long as such crimes are committed by stealth and by individuals, they are less harmful and less portentous; but cruelties are practised in accordance with acts of senate and popular assembly, and the public is bidden to do that which is forbidden to the individual. Deeds that would be punished by loss of life when committed in secret, are praised by us because uniformed generals have carried them out. Man, naturally the gentlest class of being, is not ashamed to revel in the blood of others, to wage war, and to entrust the waging of war to his sons, when even dumb beasts and wild beasts keep the peace with one another. Against this overmastering and widespread madness philosophy has become a matter of greater effort, and has taken on strength in proportion to the strength which is gained by the opposition forces.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Why does God afflict the best of men with ill-health, or sorrow, or other troubles? Because in the army the most hazardous services are assigned to the bravest soldiers: a general sends his choicest troops to attack the enemy in a midnight ambuscade, to reconnoitre his line of march, or to drive the hostile garrisons from their strong places. No one of these men says as he begins his march, "The general has dealt hardly with me," but "He has judged well of me." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor" not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.~ Butler D. Shaffer The idea of creating systems designed to threaten, coerce, and kill, and to imbue such agencies with principled legitimacy, and not expect them to lead to wars, genocides, and other tyrannical practices, expresses an innocence we can no longer afford to indulge.~ Butler D. Shaffer In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century’s wars combined.~ John Shattuck The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.~ Roger Sherman The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.~ Roger Sherman War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.~ William Tecumseh Sherman I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.~ William Tecumseh Sherman I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.~ William Tecumseh Sherman Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print