People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable, provided that it is a victorious war and that there is not too much interference with rape and plunder. This is a great help in persuading people that wars are righteous.

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

They make a desert and call it peace.

What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.

The butter to be sacrificed because of the war always turns out to be the margarine of the poor.