Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

War is the science of destruction.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is not a thing one wants.

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

War is an abstraction.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

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

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

War is a contagion.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

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

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

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.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

We are muddled into war.