War Is Glorious/Quotes
I think a curse should rest on me -- because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment -- and yet -- I can't help it -- I enjoy every second of it
—Winston Churchill, A letter to a friend (1916)
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"I love it. God help me, I love it so."
—General Patton in the 1970 film Patton
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"War... it's fantastic!"
—Arvid Harbinger, Hot Shots! Part Deux
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"My friends, it has often been said that I like war. Friends, I like war. No friends, I LOVE WAR!!"
—The Major, Hellsing
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.
—John Stuart Mill
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"Bloodless victory"? Where's the fun in that?!
—Fructose Riboflavin, The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob
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"The nightmares? They never go away, Snake. Once you have been on the battlefield, tasted the thrills, the exhilaration, the tension... It all becomes part of you. Once you've awakened the warrior within, it never sleeps again. You crave ever bigger tensions, ever bigger thrills. As a mercenary, I think that you would have realized all of this by now, Snake. People like you and I, we care nothing for power, money, or even sex... only WAR!"
—Big Boss of Metal Gear fame.
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"You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours and when it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinking dink body. The smell... you know that gasoline smell. The whole hill. It smelled like... (sniffs the air, pondering for a moment) victory. (Mortar strike goes off behind him, Colonel Kilgore doesn't even flinch) Someday this war is gonna end."
—Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now
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"Just because I can give multiple orgasms to the furniture just by sitting on it, doesn't mean I'm not sick of this damn war. The blood. The noise. The endless poetry!"
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Rajputs had a certain scorn for Ye-tai barbarity. But this was a day of manliness and no one questioned Ye-tai courage. —Rajput King Rana Sanga on winning an honorable single combat with Roman General's bodyguard, Valentinian, in Fortune's Stroke by Eric Flint and David Drake
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