Warfare Quotes Quotes

“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“If someone can change your mind, he has won you over without raising his hand against you. This is the future of warfare.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“There are no heroes
Only those that accomplish incredible feats
Under incredible amounts of pressure”
― Brendan Bigney, War What Comes After

“You have to fight great battles to guard your mind, extraordinary battles to protect your heart, and remarkable battles to defend your soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The defining moment is not losing a war, but hope”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“The promise of mutually assured
destruction had a way of calming even the fiercest hearts.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Black Legion

“The realities of pitched warfare rarely made it into the sagas. In all the stories he’d heard, especially those woeful diatribes from the remembrancers, battle was reduced to a handful of heroes going blade-to-blade in the sunlight, while their nameless lessers looked on in stupefied awe.
It took a great deal to make Khârn cringe, but war poetry never failed.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Betrayer

“The soldier exists in a private hell half deaf and half blinded by poisonous fumes. He is suspended on a thread over a void containing all the terrible ways there are to die and he thinks about all the things he’d always meant to do and had never got round to doing. Most men are a confusion of half truths and vanity, of something lost and never completed.”
― Clifford Thurlow, We Shall Pass

“Governments predicate the call for war upon very terrible lies: that it will restrain evil men, make honest and courageous men out of boys, and the outcome depends upon the moral virtuousness of the combatants. Warfare is obscene, an evil waste of life, and a destroyer of civilization. Society can salvage no virtue or rectitude from the larger waste of destroying cities and killing people. There is no moral message deduced from warfare. All warfare is barbaric and inhuman.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Condemning war has not curbed armed conflict. Religion and education did not eliminate war. Warfare did not terminate more wars. Armed combat simply breeds endless wars.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“War provides some people with a sense of purposefulness. The drumbeat of war quickens the pulse of neighbors, relatives, tribes, and nations. Hostile nations amass weapons of destruction claiming that they seek peace through deterrence. When war comes, advocates of arms galvanize the citizenry by proclaiming the inevitability of conflict. Each side’s propaganda machine cast the campaign of present war as the next Great War. Generals brashly promote armed conflict as the war to end all other wars. Saber-rattlers proclaim that the opposition’s militant disciples instituted this ordeal of conquest and destruction.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“War is a lethal distraction." - On War”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows

“Your worship to the Lord shows how worthy He (God) is to you.
Your worship is your warfare.
By your worship, you overcome, overflow and conquer.
Worship to win.”
― Wisdom Kwashie Mensah, THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY

“Battles are not only won outwardly, they are first won within.”
― Wisdom Kwashie Mensah

“No matter how much talent or strength you possess, without the assistance of heaven known as luck, th only thing awaiting for you in your path is an early grave #Rin ko”
― Yasuhisa Hara, Kingdom, Tome 46

“I have never really understood our gene-father's obsession with martial glory. It always seemed to me more efficient to simply eradicate our foes from orbit. Pound the earth flat and build over the ashes.

And if they dig in?

There are ways. Saboteurs, chemical weapons - there are hundreds of ways of dismantling a world and its population that do not involve orbital insertions and glorious advances into the teeth of enemy fire. Perhaps I overestimate the intelligence of our species. Perhaps we are little more than psychopathic apes, driven to fashion clubs and smash out the brains of our closest neighbours.

And here I thought you were the clever one. I figured that out the day of my culling, when my family forced my cousins and me to fight for the honour of joining the Third. War as you describe it would be little more than pest control. What is there for the gods to feed on? Where is the desire for victory, the savagery, the hope and despair? Where is the entertainment?

I believe you have made my point for me.

No, you are not listening. On my pilgrimage, I learned much. Win or lose, the gods feast on our deeds. A man pets a stray, and his small pleasure in the kindness of the act feeds Slaanesh. A woman strikes her crying child, and that awful moment of elation she feels feeds Khorne. A Munitorum drone considers suicide. Nurgle grows fat on his despair. A merciful strategist devises a plan for bloodless victory, and Tzeentch is content. The Word Bearers believe the gods crave worship. But the gods care for nothing save filling their bellies with our sorrows. Intentionally or not, we are all meat for the beast. Even you, Fabius.”
― Josh Reynolds, Fabius Bile: The Omnibus

“After thirty thousand years, warfare had come full circle.
The sheer scale of humanity’s conflicts disregarded the corrupt reliance on automation as seen in the Dark Age of Technology. Mankind was back down to swords beating against shields and men entrenched with their rifles, where the gods of myth were Titan war machines and Baneblade tanks.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden

“Peace never came. Maybe we’d never wanted it from inside. We need geopolitical drama, we need commotion, we need a divide-and-rule policy, and we need to sell weapons and ammunition. We need profit. Who needs peace?”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Soldiers,' he made an insult of the word. 'Once we were crusaders Khayon, and now we're warriors, but we were never soldiers. Keep that foolishness to yourself.'

I swallowed my argument, following his train of thought. It was not the first time legionaries have disagreed over those semantics, and it would be far from the last. Some believed soldiering came down to discipline, or fighting for a state or a leader rather than for yourself. Some believed warriorhood was a matter of heart that elevated them above a soldier's station, while others considered it a state of barbarity that dragged them beneath it. Some questions have no answers. No matter how seriously we took warfare, no matter how adamantly we clung to our disciplined roots as a Space Marine Legion, many of our number were ultimately the raiders and marauders that time had made them. For better or worse, we would never have the ironclad discipline of a Throne-loyal Adeptus Astartes force. Even back then, we had lost much of the discipline we had once possessed as Legions of the Great Crusade.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Black Legion

“War is the evolution of a brawl.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Warfare has changed, no doubt. The king and queen of battle are no longer the artillery and infantry. Now surprise is king, and speed is queen.”
― George S. Midla "From Love to War"

“One major spiritual and psychological warfare on social media is that you end up having a league of enemies you have never offended.”
― Eduvie Donald

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War”
― Sun Tzu

“The battle is the Lord's, and when we trust Him, we can experience peace, protection, and victory in the midst of challenges.”
― Shaila Touchton

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
― General George H. Patton, Jr.