Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Policy is not made with papers or ceremonies. Policy is made with iron and blood.

War is the father and king of all.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

All armed prophets have been victorious and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

I'm an indestructible master of war.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

War knows no law except that of might.

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.