
War, what is it good for? Welcome to our collection of quotes about war; many of them are cautionary, and all of them thought-provoking. Peace to you.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition -- that of international anarchy.
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important.
War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
Longer Version:
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.
