1,023 Quotes Regarding War


Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland

War is a defeat for humanity.
Pope John Paul II

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman