Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.
12 sayings from Mao Zedong
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
5 quotes from Albert Pike
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
11 quotes from Rebecca West
For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
5 views from John Milton
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
17 quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
46 more quotes from George Santayana
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
2 thoughts from Julien Benda
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
12 other quotes from Mao Zedong
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
12 wisdom & wit from Mao Zedong
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
4 other quotes from George C. Marshall
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
68 more views from Samuel Butler
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
46 quotes from George Santayana
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
12 views from Mao Zedong
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
5 quotes from Albert Pike
War is never a solution it is an aggravation.
75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
A bad peace is even worse than war.
6 quotes from Tacitus
All oppression creates a state of war.
12 other sayings from Simone de Beauvoir
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
14 views from Charles de Montesquieu
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
96 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
10 views from John Donne
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
9 more quotes from Barry Goldwater
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
37 sayings from Edmund Burke
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
11 wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur
In war there is no substitute for victory.
11 quotes from Douglas MacArthur
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
11 views from Douglas MacArthur
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
11 wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
11 quotes from Robert E. Lee
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
17 quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
16 other quotes from Isaac Asimov
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
11 quotes from Robert E. Lee
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
8 more thoughts from Jane Seymour
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
5 other wisdom & wit from Pedro Calderon de la Barca
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
41 other thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
11 more quotes from Douglas MacArthur
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
24 thoughts from Carl Sandburg
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
30 other wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
11 views from Douglas MacArthur
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
10 other quotes from Edward Abbey
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
3 other sayings from U Thant
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
11 thoughts from Robert E. Lee
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
5 other thoughts from Douglas William Jerrold
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
This war is not about slavery.
11 other quotes from Robert E. Lee
War is a contagion.
24 other quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
4 other quotes from Barbara Tuchman
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
11 more wisdom & wit from Robert E. Lee
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
41 other quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
3 quotes from Black Kettle
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
30 wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
20 other sayings from William Tecumseh Sherman
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
14 quotes from Jessica Savitch
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
25 views from Simone Weil
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
20 sayings from William Tecumseh Sherman
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
5 quotes from Omar N. Bradley
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
25 wisdom & wit from Simone Weil
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
10 more wisdom & wit from Charles Lamb
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
20 more quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
9 wisdom & wit from William S. Burroughs
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
31 other quotes from Thomas Paine
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
20 sayings from William Tecumseh Sherman
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
13 other quotes from Francois Rabelais
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
20 more wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
30 quotes from George Washington
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
14 more quotes from Susan B. Anthony
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
9 other views from Alfred Adler
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
73 thoughts from Victor Hugo
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
7 views from Walter Bagehot
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
20 more thoughts from William Tecumseh Sherman
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
5 more thoughts from Omar N. Bradley
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
20 other quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
16 quotes from Havelock Ellis
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
20 other quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
9 quotes from Alfred Adler
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
30 sayings from George Washington
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
30 quotes from George Washington
War is at its best barbarism.
20 sayings from William Tecumseh Sherman
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
20 other wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman
War is hell.
20 thoughts from William Tecumseh Sherman
War is like love it always finds a way.
14 more quotes from Bertolt Brecht
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
9 sayings from Alfred Adler
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
9 quotes from Alfred Adler
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
20 other wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein
I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
17 thoughts from Chief Joseph
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
17 sayings from Chief Joseph
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
17 more quotes from Chief Joseph
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
12 more views from Julius Caesar
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
2 quotes from Neville Chamberlain
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
105 views from Albert Einstein
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
17 quotes from Chief Joseph
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
2 sayings from Wilfred Owen
Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
9 other sayings from Andrew Jackson
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
27 wisdom & wit from James Madison
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
27 more quotes from James Madison
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
17 more sayings from Chief Joseph
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
27 quotes from James Madison
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
9 other views from Andrew Jackson
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
17 other quotes from Chief Joseph
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
12 quotes from George Herbert
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
6 other quotes from Ulysses S. Grant
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
16 other views from Otto von Bismarck
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
5 more wisdom & wit from Lester B. Pearson
Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
16 other quotes from Otto von Bismarck
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
8 other thoughts from Thomas Hobbes
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
8 views from Karl Kraus
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
70 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
6 thoughts from Ulysses S. Grant
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
6 quotes from Ulysses S. Grant
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
5 more sayings from Lester B. Pearson
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
16 sayings from Otto von Bismarck
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
8 other quotes from Thomas Hobbes
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
5 quotes from Lester B. Pearson
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
70 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
4 thoughts from Charles Evans Hughes
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
70 views from Thomas Jefferson
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
4 quotes from Marvin Gaye
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
23 other sayings from E. W. Howe
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
46 more views from John F. Kennedy
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
14 more wisdom & wit from Golda Meir
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
24 more views from James A. Baldwin
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
52 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
135 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real war will never get in the books.
30 other sayings from Walt Whitman
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
45 other thoughts from Bertrand Russell
War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
23 views from Niccolo Machiavelli
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
46 views from John F. Kennedy
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
14 sayings from Golda Meir
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
11 other quotes from Salvador Dali
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
47 more quotes from George Orwell
What is more immoral than war?
12 more thoughts from Marquis de Sade
Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
14 sayings from Thomas Hardy
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
10 more sayings from Elizabeth Bowen
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
14 views from Thomas Hardy
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Peace is produced by war.
15 more quotes from Pierre Corneille
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
31 views from Helen Keller
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
47 other quotes from George Orwell
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
47 quotes from George Orwell
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
47 views from George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
47 more sayings from George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
47 other sayings from George Orwell
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
47 quotes from George Orwell
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
17 more thoughts from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
11 other views from Thomas Mann
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
47 sayings from George Orwell
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
19 views from Alexis de Tocqueville
Business is a combination of war and sport.
14 quotes from Andre Maurois
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
I ended the war a horse ahead.
2 sayings from Nathan Bedford Forrest
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
27 thoughts from Dave Barry
I have not yet begun to fight!
3 other views from John Paul Jones
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
35 other views from Ernest Hemingway
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
17 thoughts from Calvin Coolidge
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
19 wisdom & wit from Alexis de Tocqueville
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
19 views from E. B. White
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
19 more quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
2 other wisdom & wit from Smedley Butler
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
117 other views from Henry David Thoreau
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
45 views from Aldous Huxley
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
8 views from Benito Mussolini
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
2 more quotes from Anatole Broyard
War would end if the dead could return.
4 views from Stanley Baldwin
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
3 other views from Francois Fenelon
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
16 sayings from Samuel Goldwyn
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
5 views from Maria Montessori
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
24 views from Lyndon B. Johnson
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
20 more wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
12 more wisdom & wit from Bernard Baruch
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
4 views from Meir Kahane
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
24 more views from Lyndon B. Johnson
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
10 quotes from Luc de Clapiers
War is the business of barbarians.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
19 more thoughts from Percy Bysshe Shelley
War is the trade of Kings.
17 more sayings from John Dryden
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
2 more sayings from Georges Clemenceau
If we don't end war, war will end us.
19 wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
15 views from Cyril Connolly
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
60 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
21 other sayings from Miguel de Cervantes
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
9 other wisdom & wit from Elizabeth I
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
7 more quotes from Pope Paul VI
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
27 quotes from Kin Hubbard
Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.
5 more quotes from James Thomson
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
21 thoughts from Miguel de Cervantes
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
21 thoughts from Leo Tolstoy
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
33 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
33 thoughts from Dwight D. Eisenhower
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
16 sayings from Paul Valery
War settles nothing.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
100 views from Oscar Wilde
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
2 thoughts from Robert Capa
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
18 sayings from John Adams
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
30 other thoughts from Eleanor Roosevelt
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
33 other wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
2 other thoughts from Robert Capa
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
18 quotes from John Adams
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
100 views from Mahatma Gandhi
Making peace is harder than making war.
24 views from Adlai E. Stevenson
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
3 views from Daniel Boone
Morality is contraband in war.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
15 views from Desiderius Erasmus
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
8 sayings from Ezra Pound
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
28 quotes from Napoleon Hill
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
9 more wisdom & wit from Hannah Arendt
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
15 quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
15 quotes from Desiderius Erasmus
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
8 more quotes from Lewis Mumford
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
11 wisdom & wit from Henry Van Dyke
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
2 thoughts from George Wald
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
19 quotes from Charles de Gaulle
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
57 more sayings from Will Rogers
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
12 thoughts from Gene Tierney
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
74 views from Winston Churchill
It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
78 other views from Voltaire
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
74 more views from Winston Churchill
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
20 wisdom & wit from George S. Patton
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
2 views from Stefan Zweig
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
18 other views from Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
18 thoughts from Baruch Spinoza
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
74 more sayings from Winston Churchill
Sweat saves blood.
2 other views from Erwin Rommel
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
57 views from Will Rogers
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
2 other wisdom & wit from George Wald
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
52 sayings from Albert Camus
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
20 sayings from George S. Patton
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
57 thoughts from Will Rogers
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
3 sayings from Leon Trotsky
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
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War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
4 quotes from Gilbert Parker
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
7 sayings from Joseph Wood Krutch
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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