Line #6 Quotes/WarIsGlorious


1	[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
2
3	->"My friends, it has often been said that I like war. Friends, I like war. No friends, I LOVE war.\
4	I love holocausts. I love blitzkriegs. I love defensive lines. I love sieges, charges, I love mop-up operations, and retreats.\
5	Wars across prairies, in streets, in trenches, in grasslands, in frozen tundras, through deserts, on the sea, in the air, I love every act of war that can occur upon this earth."
6	-->-- '''The Major''', ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''
7
8	->''Where's your fear now?\
9	Look at all the blood and flesh: It's like fireworks!\
10	It splatters and splatters!\
11	\
12	I haven't forgotten my thousands of scars.\
13	The flame's heat... spilling organs...\
14	Final cries... clouded eyes...\
15	Ahh, those are the things I truly seek!\
16	\
17	Peace and tranquility, let alone reconciliation,\
18	Are the acts of domestic dogs who've forsaken their fangs!\
19	Sheer madness, brought on by despair and disturbance,\
20	Sounds more like Paradise than it does Hell!''
21	-->-- '''Los! Los! Los!''', ''Literature/TheSagaOfTanyaTheEvil'' ending theme
22
23	[[AC:Comic Books]]
24	->But I must say, Lykomedes, you exaggerate your age. You're younger than Nestor of Pylos. Many still remember your triumph in battle with the Dolopes. You can't have forgotten it yourself, the living rush of battle, the pride in valor, the ''glory''. Our effort is greater than any the world has known before... The man whose spearthrust is sure, the man whose sword is strong, whose bowshot is unerring, who longs- more than for life- to stand in the rank of those heroes whose names will be sung for generations, ''that'' is the man the Acheans must have at their forefront. ''Honor'' awaits that man at Troy, honor and glory ''everlasting!''
25	-->-- '''Odysseus''' to Lykomedes (and the DisguisedInDrag Achilles), ''ComicBook/AgeOfBronze''
26
27	[[AC:Film -- Live-Action]]
28
29	->''"War: it's FAN-tastic!"''
30	-->-- '''Arvid Harbinger''', ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux''
31
32	->''"[[WhyWereBummedCommunismFell Detente with communists?]] Detente! Sounds like a couple of fags dancing."''
33	-->--'''''{{Film/Nixon}}''''' (1995)
34
35	->''"I love it. God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life."''
36	-->-- '''''{{Film/Patton}}''''' (1970)
37
38	->''"We must publish the army newspaper again and tell magnificent stories - stories that exalt sacrifice, bravery. We must make them believe in a victory. We must give them hope, pride, a desire to fight. Yes, we need to make examples, but examples to follow. What we need are heroes."''
39	-->-- '''Danilov''', ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates''
40
41	->''"These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting."''
42	-->--'''Crazy Earl''', ''Film/FullMetalJacket''
43
44	[[AC:Literature]]
45
46	->''"Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to die at that man's hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man's worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.''"
47	-->--'''Judge Holden''', ''Literature/BloodMeridian''
48
49	->''"The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace, and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told."''
50	-->--''Literature/{{Dracula}}''
51
52	->''"Fight, rape, war, pillage, burn. Filmic images of death and carnage are pornography for the military man; with film you are stroking his cock, tickling his balls with the pink feather of history, getting him ready for his real First Fuck.''"
53	-->--'''Anthony Swofford''', ''Jarhead''
54
55	->"''It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty. For all its horror, you can't help but gape at the awful majesty of combat. You stare out at tracer rounds unwinding through the dark like brilliant red ribbons. You crouch in ambush as a cool, impassive moon rises over the nighttime paddies. You admire the fluid symmetries of troops on the move, the harmonies of sound and shape and proportion, the great sheets of metal-fire streaming down from a gunship, the illumination rounds, the white phosphorus, the purply orange glow of napalm, the rocket's red glare. It's not pretty, exactly. It's astonishing. It fills the eye. It commands you. You hate it, yes, but your eyes do not. Like a killer forest fire, like cancer under a microscope, any battle or bombing raid or artillery barrage has the aesthetic purity of absolute moral indifference -- a powerful, implacable beauty -- and a true war story will tell you the truth about this, though the truth is ugly."''
56	-->-- Tim O'Brien, ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried''
57
58	[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
59
60	->''"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. '''[[{{BloodKnight}} The endless poetry]]!'''"''
61	--> -- '''[[TheAce Flashheart]]''', ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth''
62
63	->'''Jaime:''' First battle? How was it?
64	->'''Dickon:''' It was glorious!
65	->'''Jaime:''' Your father's not here.
66	->'''Dickon:''' I didn't think it would smell so bad.
67	-->''Series/GameOfThrones''
68
69	->'''Mark Antony:''' Breath deep boy! It's the smell of victory!
70	->'''Octavian:''' Smoke, shit, and rotting flesh.
71	-->''Series/{{Rome}}''
72
73	[[AC:Music]]
74
75	->''I learned that war is not so bad\
76	I learned of the great ones we have had\
77	We fought in Germany and in France\
78	And some day [[WorldWarThree I might get my chance]]''
79	-->--'''Tom Paxton''', "What Did You Learn in School Today?"
80
81	->''Ninety-nine knights of the air\
82	Riding super high-tech jet fighters\
83	Everyone's a super hero\
84	[[TaughtByTelevision Everyone's a Captain Kirk]]''
85	-->--'''Nena''', "99 Red Balloons"
86
87	->''"Now I am a general\
88	And I am giving out the orders\
89	I almost have an orgasm when the tanks are rolling\
90	Crashing through the borders\
91	It's good to be a general\
92	Just [[CannonFodder tell these idiots what to do]]...hehe\
93	Anyone in my position would love it, too"''
94	-->--'''Brazilian Girls''', "Never Met a German"
95
96	->''Sport the war, war support''\
97	''The sport is war, total war''\
98	''When this end is a slaughter''\
99	''The final swing is not a drill''\
100	''It's how many people I can kill!''
101	-->-- '''Music/{{Slayer}}''', "War Ensemble"
102
103	->''And here he is, to all his tearful oh and ah\
104	Hearing a quiet “fuck you” answer,\
105	he weaves away with shame like a yellow mimosa\
106	And the warrior goes towards him on crutches:\
107	\
108	Wounded, disfigured, fate to shreds\
109	But this is the tragedy of a tiger, not a coyote!\
110	An enviable destiny! And in vain the notorious "someone"\
111	Angrily stares his pupils at me''
112	-->-- '''Mikhail Shcherbakov''', "1995"
113
114	[[AC:Stand-Up Comedy]]
115
116	->''"People say to me, 'Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves.' Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps … sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?"''
117	-->--'''Creator/BillHicks''' on the UsefulNotes/GulfWar
118
119	[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
120	->''"We don't fight fer food, or fer teef, or guns, or cos we's told to fight. We fight cos we woz born to fight. And win."''
121	-->--'''Ork Boy Grukk''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
122
123	->''"I have seen war in all its forms. I have seen feral world savages braining each other with stones, and I have monitored the death of a whole planet at the hands of a virus bomb. I have seen Space Marines drop to certain death, and win. I have seen Titans crush whole platoons underfoot. But there is no more stirring sight in war than the charge of massed cavalry."''
124	-->--'''Dravin Gratz, 14th Tharinga Regiment''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
125
126	[[AC:Theatre]]
127
128	->''Glory and love to the men of old,\
129	Their sons may copy their virtues bold;\
130	Courage in heart and a sword in hand,\
131	Both ready to fight and ready to die for Fatherland!\
132	\
133	Who needs bidding to dare by a trumpet blown?\
134	Who lacks pity to spare when the field is won?\
135	Who would fly from a foe if alone or lost?\
136	And boast he was true, as coward might do when peril is past?\
137	\
138	Glory and love to the men of old!\
139	Their sons may copy their virtues bold,\
140	Courage in heart and a sword in hand,\
141	All ready to fight for Fatherland.''
142	-->--"Soldiers' Chorus" from Gounod's opera ''Faust''
143
144	[[AC:Video Games]]
145
146	->(War!)'' Never been so much fun!\
147	''(War!)'' Never been so much fuuuun!\
148	''(War!)'' Never been so much fun!\
149	''(War!)'' Never been so much fuuuun!\
150	Go up to your brother\
151	Kill him with your gun\
152	Leave him lyin' in his uniform\
153	Dyin' in the sun\
154	''(War!)'' BANG!''
155	-->--'''''VideoGame/CannonFodder''''' theme
156
157	->''Father Armand was silent for a long time. He glanced over at the skull on a stake. "A Hunnic trophy," he said. "I think the man was a Visigoth. He died at the battle of the Catalaunian Fields. I keep it here so that I may see it every day and remember." ''
158	->''"Remember what, father?" I asked him.''
159	->''"The scent of a burning village. The sound of butchery. The way peasants would flee before the Hun riders. The way we would ride them down. The way it felt to conquer alongside Attila and the Huns."''
160	->''He leaned so close I could feel his breath. "Sometimes... ''
161	->''I miss it."''
162	-->--''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII''
163
164	->''Glory for the first man to die, charge!''
165	-->--''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Winter Assault''
166
167	->''"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."''
168	--> -- '''Big Boss,''' ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''
169
170	->''Make no mistake. War is coming. With all its glory. And with all its horror.''
171	--> -- '''[[VideoGame/StarcraftII Arcturus Mengsk]]'''
172
173	->''Noble [[HornyVikings Nords]] remember these words of''
174	->''the hoar father: To kill in''
175	->''glorious war is to honor oneself, to die''
176	->''in glorious war is to honor all of Skyrim.''
177	--> -- Wall engraving found in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''
178
179	->''What do we fight for? Peace? Peace... is a false hope. It is a lie told by leaders who have lost the will to fight. A time of reckoning has come. We will cleanse Heathmoor of the liars and the wicked. We will start an era with the truest heroes of this world. Peace... is poison. We... are... '''war.'''''
180	-->--'''Astrea''', ''Videogame/ForHonor''
181
182	->''My coming would have saved you, set your people free in ways they cannot see. War would have tested them. Broken the weak with its violence, yet allowing the strong to arise. Violence gave you that strength, awakened you - I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark.''
183	-->--'''Legate Lanius''', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''
184	[[AC:Webcomics]]
185
186	->"'Bloodless victory'? Where's the fun in that?!"
187	--> -- '''Fructose Riboflavin''', ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''
188
189	[[AC:Web Original]]
190
191	->''"Now’s as good a time as any to discuss the fate of Chris Kyle. Certainly, the film itself [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory finds very little time to do so]]. His eventual death at the hands of a fellow veteran on a gun range should shadow every frame of ''Film/AmericanSniper.'' For whatever reason, it’s the buried lede here; for all the horrors it reveals on the battlefield, the film is reluctant to truly acknowledge that the war never truly ends for many veterans. Kyle is apparently miraculously healed of his PTSD, and his death is consigned to a closing text--Chris Kyle somehow becoming an afterthought in his own story is the real horror of ''American Sniper.'' Eastwood seems less interested in the man and more enthralled by the legend--he’s into mythmaking, not psychoanalysis."''
192	-->--'''[[http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/review.php?movie=27789&reviewer=429 Brett Gallman]]'''
193
194
195	->''"Now comes Bernard-Henri Lévy, who, when asked by Jon Lee Anderson why he supported the intervention in Libya, says, ''“Why? I don’t know! Of course, it was human rights, for a massacre to be prevented, and {{blah blah blah}}….”'' Never underestimate the murder and mayhem men will make, just to escape their boredom."''
196	-->--'''[[http://crookedtimber.org/2015/02/20/human-rights-blah-blah-blah/ John Quiggin]]'''
197
198	->''"I remember vividly and guiltily how, in the lead up to the Gulf War, I longed for war. It was natural. A view of history that treated war as the interesting bits, reinforced by a view of mass media that taught me that wars were where fun things like cartoons and video games happened meant that by 1990, at the age of 8, I was positively bitter that my life had dragged on without a proper war to keep things interesting.\
199	The viewpoint is, like so much of being eight, barbaric in hindsight. It is not quite bloodlust, but rather a sort of blood blindness -- the complete failure to recognize war as something other than the skeleton upon which a textbook is draped."''
200	-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/04/imaginary-lithuanian-hero-gi-joe-gi-joe.html El Sandifer]]''' on ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe''
201
202	[[AC:RealLife]]
203
204	->''"I tell you that neither eating, drinking, nor sleep has as much savor for me as to hear the cry 'Forwards!' from both sides, and horses without riders shying and whinnying, and the cry 'Help! Help!', and to see the small and great fall to the grass at the ditches and the dead pierced by the wood of the lances decked with banners."''
205	--> -- '''Bertran de Born'''
206
207	->''"The pleasant season is drawing nigh when our ships shall land, when King Richard shall come, merry and proud as he never was before. Now we shall see gold and silver spent; the newly built stonework will crack to the heart's desire, walls crumble, towers topple and collapse, our enemies taste prison and chains. I love the melee of blue and vermilion shields, the many-colored ensigns and the banners, the tents and rich pavilions spread out on the plain, the breaking lances, the pierced shields, the gleaming helmets that are split, the blows given and received."''
208	--> -- '''Bertran de Born'''
209
210	->''"Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,\
211	And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,\
212	With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,\
213	To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.''
214	--> -- '''Rupert Brooke''', ''1914''
215
216	->''"Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war."''
217	-->--'''UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini''', 1921
218
219	->''"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."''
220	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''', ''A letter to a friend'' (1916)
221
222	->''"I would like at this time to touch upon the greatest spiritual event which has taken place since the fourth kingdom of nature, the human kingdom, appeared. I refer to the release of atomic energy, as related in the newspapers this week, August 6, 1945, in connection with the bombing of Japan."''
223	-->--'''Alice Bailey''', "The Release of Atomic Energy"
224
225	->''"Certainly the war is hurting the economy, and the people don’t like that. But at a deeper level, I think our people revel in war and blood, particularly if the victims belong to '[[YellowPeril inferior]]' races."''
226	-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''' on UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, 1969
227
228	->''"We are also the victims of an unfortunate caricature of our profession. That is, a lot of people think we are pinstriped cookie pushers. I know that because I am a regular guest, [[FoxNewsLiberal for better or worse]], on the ''Ollie North Show''. His listeners often tell me that I'm a pinstriped cookie pusher."''
229	-->--Former U.S. Ambassador '''R. Nicholas Burns'''
230
231	->''"This blanket amnesia is often part of the aftermath of war. The puncturing of the nationalist myth, an event that saw the Serbs turn their back on Miloević once [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Kosovo was lost]], does not mean, however, that the nationalist virus has been conquered. While the excesses carried out in the name of the nationalist cause are forgotten or ignored, the myth of the nation has a disturbing longevity. It lies dormant, festering in the society, nurtured by boys' adventure stories of heroism in service to the nation, the monuments we erect to the fallen, and carefully scripted remembrances until it slowly slouches back into respectability."''
232	-->-- '''Chris Hedges''', ''War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning''
233
234	->''"If the war is lost, then it is of no concern to me. If people perish in it, I still would not shed a single tear for them, because they do not deserve better.\
235	[[TheSocialDarwinist Life does not forgive weakness]].\
236	[[BloodKnight I want war]]. To me all means will be right. My motto is not 'Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy.' My motto is 'Destroy him by all and any means.' [[WarIsGlorious I am the one who will wage the war]]! I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses."''
237	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''', ''Literature/MeinKampf''
238
239	->''"Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan Genghis Khan]] led millions of women and children to slaughter, with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It's a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. [[WrittenByTheWinners Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?]]"''
240	-->-- '''Adolf Hitler'''
241

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