Portuguese Proverb Quotes

War is the science of destruction.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

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.

War is about dead people.

War is the province of danger.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

We made war to the end—to the very end of the end.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

Nations at war are wild beasts.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Killing is the payoff of war.