Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. Charles Wilson on war
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. Hillary Clinton on war
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. Fidel Castro on war
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. George Orwell on war
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. Marcus Tullius Cicero on war
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. Meir Kahane on war
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. Ambrose Bierce on war
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. Henry A. Kissinger 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
Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois on war
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. Maria Montessori on war
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. Harry S. Truman on war
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. Barbara Kingsolver on war
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. Gilbert K. Chesterton on war
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Leo Tolstoy on war
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. Norman Schwarzkopf on war
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. Marcus Tullius Cicero on war