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There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
Martin Scorsese on war

Law is always better than war.
Brian Eno on war

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant on war

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
Sylvester Stallone on war

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
Marco Rubio on war

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Howard Thurman on war

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane Satrapi on war

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart on war

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Imran Khan on war

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
Tom Hiddleston on war

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
Tom Hiddleston on war

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'
Tom Hiddleston on war

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
William Burroughs on war

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
Conan O'Brien on war

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
Conan O'Brien on war