Mark Steyn Quotes

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

The Middle East conflict has become the locus of the final war between Muslims and the West

America is at war with Islam … she does not want Islam to survive.

In this war we are not fighting against you, the German people, for whom we have no bitter feeling, but against a tyrannous and forsworn regime which has betrayed not only its own people but the whole of Western civilization and all that you and we hold dear.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe – without swords, without guns, without conquests. The fifty million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time, or else declare war on the Muslims.

I'm in a war, a cultural war.

Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.

There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.