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  • Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

    War   Stress   People  
    Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.78, Random House
  • In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

    Dog   Peace   War  
    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  • It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. It was definitely tapping into the Dr. Strangelove vibe, which is one of my three top favorite films or all time.

    Revenge   War   Believe  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

  • whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

    Art   War   Simple  
    Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”
  • Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

    War   Men   Glory  
    William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.275, Routledge
  • There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.
  • No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

    War   Sea   Rebellion  
    Samuel Eliot Morison (1965). “the Oxford History of the American People \”
  • The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it.

    Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”
  • Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.

    Military   Gun   Fire  
  • In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

    War   Loser   Modern  
  • The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available to us. The internet and real-time media reporting were integrated into daily life in Iraq.

    Real   War   Media  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

    Death   Peace   War  
  • Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  • Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our civilization shall find some means of making an end to war, war will make an end to our civilization.

    War   Mean   Civilization  
    John Hessin Clarke (1925). “America and World Peace”
  • Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

    War   Men   Discipline  
  • I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

    Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller
  • Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.

    War   Marine   Order  
  • Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

    War   Fighting   Army  
  • Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

    War   Roots   Modern  
  • They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

    Death   Country   Sweet  
    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster
  • So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

  • If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

    War   Air   Sea  
  • The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.199, Da Capo Press
  • All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

    Book   Usa   Literature  
    Green Hills of Africa ch. 1 (1935)
  • Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

    Peace   War   Knowing  
    Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 1: Fundamentals of Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy: the Neurotic Character”, p.89, Alfred Adler Institute
  • The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

    Peace   Real   War  
    Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.140, New Directions Publishing
  • A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.

    Peace   War   Winning  
    Bruce Catton (1985). “The Civil War”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

    Peace   War   Struggle  
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