Henry David Thoreau Quotes

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Nature is lethal but it doesn’t hold a candle to man.

The papers are full of the atomic bomb [Hiroshima] which is going to revolutionize everything and blow us all to buggery. Not a bad idea.

All the business houses, banks, stores, etc., in the city were robbed and burned save one, and... most of the businessmen killed.... Mrs. Reed put out the fire six times to save her house, and they would fire it anew, but she by almost superhuman exertions saved it.... One lady threw her arms around her husband, and begged of them to spare his life. They rested the pistol on her arm as it was around his body, and shot him dead, and the fire from the pistol burnt the sleeve of her dress….The very air seems charged with blood and death.... The fires were still glowing in the cellars... Here and there among the embers could be seen the bones of those who had perished.... The sickening odor of burned flesh was oppressive. Pandemonium itself seems to have broken loose... and death runs riot over the country….

Blizzards, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us

Destroyer of Villages

Virtually every instance of terrorism in recent years has evoked a God who is perceived to be engaged in cosmic warfare. These imagined battles are about power and politics and more: freedom, civilization and life itself.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.