Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. Pope John Paul II on war
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? Victor Hugo on war
A war between Europeans is a civil war. Victor Hugo on war
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. Dwight D. Eisenhower on war
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo on war
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams on war
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. George Orwell on war
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper. Hubert H. Humphrey on war
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy on war
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. Ann Coulter on war
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. George Orwell on war
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. George Orwell on war
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman on war
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on war
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell on war
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell on war
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs on war