"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

War, Civilization

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

Exlpore more War quotes

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

War, Victory, Dependence, Guidance

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

War, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training."

John Steinbeck, American Author

War, Morality, Killing, Conflict

"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

John Steinbeck, American Author

War, Sacrifice, Hope, Peace

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

War, Conflict, Opportunity, Survival

"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."

Stephen King, American Author

War, Truth, Myth, Wisdom, Power

"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."

Stephen King, American Author

War, Regret, Today, Future

"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"

Stephen King, American Author

War, Weapon, Violence, Truth, Realization

"War is what happens when language fails."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

War, Language

"Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal."

Max Schmeling, German Athlete

War, Victory, Fight, Germany

Explore more quotes by Will Rogers

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

Sound

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

People

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Man

"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."

Ignorance

"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

War

"One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials."

Worth

"When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states."

State

9

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more War quotes

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

"There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower."

"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"

"War is what happens when language fails."

"Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal."

Explore more quotes by Will Rogers

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

"Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious."

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."

"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

"One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials."

"When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states."