“I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.”

— Don DeLillo , book End Zone

Source: End Zone (1972), Ch. 19

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American novelist, playwright and essayist 1936

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

"All's Fair in War", http://books.google.com/books?id=CQgEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22There+is+no+such+thing+as+an+atrocity+in+warfare+that+is+greater+than+the+atrocity+of+warfare+itself%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage Strictly Personal syndicated column (31 August 1981) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19810831&id=qeQcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q44EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4655,3549388
Pieces of Eight (1982)

“The substitution of industrialism for warfare is not… understood to imply a diminution of individual enterprise, but an alteration in its application.”

J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism

section 11, p. 420
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906), Ch. XVII Civilisation and Industrial Development

“I don't think we are ever prepared for the level of warfare at which ignorance fights.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73

“We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare — warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Commencement address at Lindsey Wilson College (14 May 2005) http://www.lindsey.edu/index.cgi?id=10379.
Context: The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining … to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare — warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

“I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.”

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

"Sunday Morning".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)

“Love is a kind of warfare.”
Militiae species amor est.

Ovid book Ars amatoria

Book II, line 233
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

“Guerrilla warfare is a people's warfare; an attempt to carry out this type of war without the population's support is a prelude to inevitable disaster.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

Method of Guerrilla Warfare (1963)

“We are here to announce class warfare, in peace and for democracy.”

Nattawut Saikua (1975) Thai politician

As quoted in "Protests Urge Resignation of Leaders in Thailand http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/asia/15thai.html" in The New York Times (15 March 2010).

“We remember what modern warfare is, with no glory in it but the heroism of man.”

Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech to the Peace Society (31 October 1935), quoted in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 322.
1935
Context: We live under the shadow of the last War and its memories still sicken us. We remember what modern warfare is, with no glory in it but the heroism of man.

“Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.”

Heinz Guderian (1888–1954) German general

As quoted in Sword Point (1988) by Harold Coyle, p. 141

“I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.”

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