“They thought war was a game and every defeat only made them more eager to play.”
Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest
Philip of Valois, King of France, regarding his more reckless nobles, p. 4
The Grail Quest, Heretic (2003)
http://es.eurosport.yahoo.com/27042010/47/liga-campeones-asi-nacio-mourinho-hoy-conocemos.html <br class="br">2010
“They thought war was a game and every defeat only made them more eager to play.”
Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest
Philip of Valois, King of France, regarding his more reckless nobles, p. 4
The Grail Quest, Heretic (2003)
José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/may/22/champions-league-final-jose-mourinho <br class="br">2010
“Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.”
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
Campaign ad, quoted in Newsweek (23 June 2008), p. 21
2000s, 2008
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
As quoted in Il Duce: The Life and Work of Benito Mussolini, L. Kemechey, New York: NY, Richard R. Smith (1930) p. 56. Written just before taking editorship of the Italian Socialist Party newspaper Avanti in 1912.
1910s
Bashar al-Assad (1965) President of Syria
Interview with Bill Neely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45odEv_1DAY (July 2016) on " NBC: Exclusive Interview with Bashar al-Assad https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/syria-s-president-bashar-al-assad-speaks-nbc-news-n608746"
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
85
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“Children are capable of such open rudeness.”
Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
On Coalition Government (1945)
“War crimes are only committed by defeated powers.”
Kevin Carson (1963) American academic
But as the Nazis learned in 1945, unemployed war criminals can usually find work with the new hegemonic power.
"The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege" (2011)
“War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.”
James Jones book The Thin Red Line
Source: The Thin Red Line