War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. Smedley Butler on war
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. Kin Hubbard on war
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. George W. Bush on war
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. William Tecumseh Sherman on war
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. Thucydides on war
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. Douglas MacArthur on war
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it. John Paul Jones on war
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Stephen King on war
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. Aung San Suu Kyi on war
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. Jefferson Davis on war
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. Noam Chomsky on war
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war. Chief Joseph on war
My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is. Thom Yorke on war
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. Virginia Woolf on war
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. Adrienne Rich on war
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. Henry Miller 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
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. Donald Rumsfeld on war
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. Julius Caesar on war
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. Will Durant on war