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
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
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. Henry A. Kissinger
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
Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. Maria Montessori
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. Harry S. Truman
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
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
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Leo Tolstoy
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. Norman Schwarzkopf
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. Marcus Tullius Cicero
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. H. G. Wells