Famous Quotes
- War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
- Benito Mussolini on War
- War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
- Henry Rollins on War
- War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
- George Orwell on War
- War is what happens when language fails.
- Margaret Atwood on War
- War itself is the enemy of the human race.
- Howard Zinn on War
- War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
- Charles Caleb Colton on War
- War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
- Ernie Pyle on War
- War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
- George Herbert on War
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter on War
- War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
- War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
- Leo Tolstoy on War
- War remains the decisive human failure.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on War
- War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on War
- War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on War
- War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
- Colin Powell on War
- War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
- James Madison on War
- War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
- Anatole France on War
- War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy on War
- War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
- H. L. Mencken on War
- War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin on War
- War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
- Margaret Sanger on War
- 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.
- Paul Valery on War
- Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
- Salvador Dali on War
- Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.
- Conrad Black on War
- We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
- Anatole Broyard on War
- We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.
- Dennis Chavez on War
- We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
- Condoleezza Rice on War
- We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on War
- We are not at war against Islam.
- Barack Obama on War
- 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.
- Virginia Woolf on War
- We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.
- Peter Yarrow on War
- We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
- Noam Chomsky on War
- We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter on War
- We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
- Paul Wolfowitz on War
- We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
- James P. Hoffa on War
- We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
- Margaret J. Wheatley on War
- We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- 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.
- Chief Joseph on War
- We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
- Joni Mitchell on War
- We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
- Golda Meir on War
- We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.
- Muammar Al-Gaddafi on War
- We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
- Black Kettle on War
- We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
- We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick on War
- We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
- Omar N. Bradley on War
- We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
- Elton John on War
- We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
- Michael Moore on War
- We make war that we may live in peace.
- We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
- Joni Mitchell on War
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