1,023 Quotes Regarding War


But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
Helen Thomas

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
Black Kettle

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.
Prince Andrew

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Anatole Broyard

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
Vanessa Kerry

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
John Randolph

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.
James A. Baldwin

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

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.
Albert Einstein

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway