Paul Virilio Quotes

Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

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

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

I think I have great knowledge of - for military, and I think I have better vision for Syria than a lot of the so-called great military geniuses that are saying how to fight the war with Syria. In my opinion, they're doing just the opposite. Are we going to start World War III over Syria? Are we going to be there for the next 40 years?

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

War is politics by other means.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

War is not a jobs program.