War - Philosophy XII

[BLUEHAWK]

"I see wars, horrible wars, and the Tiber foaming with much blood."
Virgil (70-19 BCE)

"He maketh wars to cease in all the world: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariots in the fire.
Be still then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth."
Prayer Book (1662)

"And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls
Somehow or other I always seemed to put
In the wrong place. And for war, my wars
Were global from the start."
Henry Reed (1914-?)

"I told them I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars."
George Fox (1624-1691)

"Peace shall go to sleep with Turks and infidels,
And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;
Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny
Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd
The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls."
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

[Desdichado]

"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime is that war is chaos and the American Army practices it on a daily basis"

- Attributed to a German General during a postwar debriefing.