Quotes
Quotes about War
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
The next World War will be fought with stones.
War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
War is the science of destruction.
It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
War is hell.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
