Quotes About War To Ponder and Share
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.
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.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition -- that of international anarchy.
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.
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.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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.
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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.
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.
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
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/[Notes]:
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 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.
If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Condemning war has not curbed armed conflict. Religion and education did not eliminate war. Warfare did not terminate more wars. Armed combat simply breeds endless wars.
The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property -- a set back for civilisation.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war -- and the troubles that flow from it.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
During pre-industrial warfare more than 90 percent of war dead were killed by starvation, cold and disease rather than by weapons.
It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
