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Modern War Quotes

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley
Ezra Pound quote: "The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one..."
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound
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. Aldous Huxley
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. James Dickey
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. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway quote: "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
Frank Whittle quote: "A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its..."
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. Frank Whittle
William Halsey quote: "If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the..."
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. William Halsey
Mackenzie King quote: "Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for..."
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. Mackenzie King
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. Edward Abbey
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more..."
War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree. Gilbert K. Chesterton
David Hackworth quote: "Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie."
Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. David Hackworth
The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life - the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to... Robert M. Pirsig
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. Harry Seidler
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. King Hussein I

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