Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

war

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts. 12 sayings from Mao Zedong

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. 68 sayings from Samuel Butler

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. 5 quotes from Albert Pike

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology. 11 wisdom & wit from Rebecca West

For what can war, but endless war, still breed? 5 quotes from John Milton

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. 17 more thoughts from Sammy Davis, Jr.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war. 46 views from George Santayana

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. 2 wisdom & wit from Julien Benda

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. 12 more wisdom & wit from Mao Zedong

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. 12 thoughts from Mao Zedong

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. 4 sayings from George C. Marshall

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. 68 views from Samuel Butler

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. 46 quotes from George Santayana

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. 12 quotes from Mao Zedong

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. 58 sayings from Thomas Carlyle

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. 5 quotes from Albert Pike

War is never a solution it is an aggravation. 75 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

A bad peace is even worse than war. 6 sayings from Tacitus

All oppression creates a state of war. 12 more quotes from Simone de Beauvoir

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. 14 other quotes from Charles de Montesquieu

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. 96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. 10 quotes from John Donne

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. 9 quotes from Barry Goldwater

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. 11 other thoughts from Douglas MacArthur

In war there is no substitute for victory. 11 other sayings from Douglas MacArthur

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. 11 other wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. 11 other sayings from Douglas MacArthur

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. 11 views from Robert E. Lee

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended. 17 more sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. 41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not only the living who are killed in war. 16 sayings from Isaac Asimov

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. 11 other quotes from Robert E. Lee

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years. 8 quotes from Jane Seymour

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. 5 quotes from Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. 41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. 11 wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. 24 other quotes from Carl Sandburg

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. 30 views from Virginia Woolf

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. 11 wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. 10 thoughts from Edward Abbey

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. 3 thoughts from U Thant

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. 11 quotes from Robert E. Lee

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. 5 sayings from Douglas William Jerrold

There was never a good war, or a bad peace. 96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

This war is not about slavery. 11 views from Robert E. Lee

War is a contagion. 24 thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. 41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. 4 quotes from Barbara Tuchman

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. 11 wisdom & wit from Robert E. Lee

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. 41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. 3 quotes from Black Kettle

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. 30 quotes from Virginia Woolf

War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. 30 views from Charles Caleb Colton

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. 20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. 14 more sayings from Jessica Savitch

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. 25 quotes from Simone Weil

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. 20 views from William Tecumseh Sherman

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. 5 quotes from Omar N. Bradley

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. 25 views from Simone Weil

A war between Europeans is a civil war. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. 10 views from Charles Lamb

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. 20 thoughts from William Tecumseh Sherman

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. 9 sayings from William S. Burroughs

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. 20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. 31 more quotes from Thomas Paine

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace. 20 wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. 13 wisdom & wit from Francois Rabelais

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy. 20 other quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. 20 more thoughts from William Tecumseh Sherman

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. 20 wisdom & wit from William Tecumseh Sherman

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. 30 sayings from George Washington

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. 14 more sayings from Susan B. Anthony

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. 9 quotes from Alfred Adler

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. 73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. 7 thoughts from Walter Bagehot

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. 20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. 5 quotes from Omar N. Bradley

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. 20 views from William Tecumseh Sherman

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. 16 more quotes from Havelock Ellis

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell. 20 other quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. 9 quotes from Alfred Adler

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. 30 thoughts from George Washington

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. 30 views from George Washington

War is at its best barbarism. 20 more quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. 20 sayings from William Tecumseh Sherman

War is hell. 20 views from William Tecumseh Sherman

War is like love it always finds a way. 14 sayings from Bertolt Brecht

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. 31 views from Gertrude Stein

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. 9 more sayings from Alfred Adler

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. 9 other sayings from Alfred Adler

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. 20 more quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country. 17 other quotes from Chief Joseph

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition. 17 more views from Chief Joseph

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed. 17 quotes from Chief Joseph

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. 12 quotes from Julius Caesar

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. 2 other views from Neville Chamberlain

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. 105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein

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. 17 more thoughts from Chief Joseph

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. 2 more quotes from Wilfred Owen

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down. 9 other quotes from Andrew Jackson

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. 27 quotes from James Madison

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. 27 more quotes from James Madison

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war. 17 quotes from Chief Joseph

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. 27 other quotes from James Madison

War is a blessing compared with national degradation. 9 other quotes from Andrew Jackson

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. 105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end. 17 sayings from Chief Joseph

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. 12 sayings from George Herbert

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. 6 more sayings from Ulysses S. Grant

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. 16 other sayings from Otto von Bismarck

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. 5 other quotes from Lester B. Pearson

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. 16 sayings from Otto von Bismarck

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. 8 more quotes from Thomas Hobbes

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. 8 views from Karl Kraus

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. 70 views from Thomas Jefferson

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. 6 quotes from Ulysses S. Grant

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. 70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. 6 more quotes from Ulysses S. Grant

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. 5 quotes from Lester B. Pearson

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. 16 quotes from Otto von Bismarck

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. 8 quotes from Thomas Hobbes

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. 5 more wisdom & wit from Lester B. Pearson

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. 70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. 4 sayings from Charles Evans Hughes

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. 70 other thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. 38 other quotes from William Hazlitt

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. 70 more thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate. 4 quotes from Marvin Gaye

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. 23 thoughts from E. W. Howe

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. 46 more sayings from John F. Kennedy

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. 26 more wisdom & wit from Harry S. Truman

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. 14 other views from Golda Meir

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up. 24 wisdom & wit from James A. Baldwin

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. 52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. 45 other sayings from Bertrand Russell

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. 46 more quotes from John F. Kennedy

The only defensible war is a war of defense. 52 other thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real war will never get in the books. 30 quotes from Walt Whitman

There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. 23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. 45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. 23 views from Niccolo Machiavelli

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. 46 more thoughts from John F. Kennedy

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. 46 views from John F. Kennedy

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. 14 quotes from Golda Meir

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. 11 views from Salvador Dali

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. 47 quotes from George Orwell

What is more immoral than war? 12 more quotes from Marquis de Sade

Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. 14 quotes from Thomas Hardy

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. 47 sayings from George Orwell

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. 10 sayings from Elizabeth Bowen

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. 14 quotes from Thomas Hardy

Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. 47 thoughts from George Orwell

Peace is produced by war. 15 sayings from Pierre Corneille

Serious sport is war minus the shooting. 47 thoughts from George Orwell

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! 31 quotes from Helen Keller

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. 47 other wisdom & wit from George Orwell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. 47 wisdom & wit from George Orwell

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. 47 thoughts from George Orwell

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. 47 quotes from George Orwell

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. 47 other wisdom & wit from George Orwell

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. 47 other quotes from George Orwell

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. 17 thoughts from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. 11 views from Thomas Mann

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 47 more quotes from George Orwell

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. 19 wisdom & wit from Alexis de Tocqueville

Business is a combination of war and sport. 14 other wisdom & wit from Andre Maurois

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I ended the war a horse ahead. 2 more quotes from Nathan Bedford Forrest

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. 27 wisdom & wit from Dave Barry

I have not yet begun to fight! 3 wisdom & wit from John Paul Jones

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. 35 more views from Ernest Hemingway

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. 17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. 19 thoughts from Alexis de Tocqueville

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. 35 views from Ernest Hemingway

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. 19 more quotes from E. B. White

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. 19 more sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. 2 quotes from Smedley Butler

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. 45 views from Aldous Huxley

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. 8 wisdom & wit from Benito Mussolini

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. 2 other wisdom & wit from Anatole Broyard

War would end if the dead could return. 4 other quotes from Stanley Baldwin

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. 50 more sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. 50 more thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. 3 more quotes from Francois Fenelon

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting. 16 quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. 5 other quotes from Maria Montessori

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. 24 more views from Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. 20 views from Herbert Hoover

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. 12 more quotes from Bernard Baruch

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. 4 more sayings from Meir Kahane

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. 20 quotes from Herbert Hoover

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. 24 thoughts from Lyndon B. Johnson

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. 24 sayings from Lyndon B. Johnson

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. 10 more quotes from Luc de Clapiers

War is the business of barbarians. 50 other views from Napoleon Bonaparte

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. 19 more views from Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the trade of Kings. 17 sayings from John Dryden

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. 2 more quotes from Georges Clemenceau

If we don't end war, war will end us. 19 other sayings from H. G. Wells

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. 15 other quotes from Cyril Connolly

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. 60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. 21 sayings from Miguel de Cervantes

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. 60 other views from H. L. Mencken

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. 9 quotes from Elizabeth I

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. 7 more sayings from Pope Paul VI

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. 27 other sayings from Kin Hubbard

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace. 5 more wisdom & wit from James Thomson

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. 21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. 21 other quotes from Leo Tolstoy

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. 60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. 33 more views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. 33 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. 16 other sayings from Paul Valery

War settles nothing. 33 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. 30 other sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. 100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner. 2 quotes from Robert Capa

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. 18 more thoughts from John Adams

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. 30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. 33 more views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. 2 other sayings from Robert Capa

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. 18 other quotes from John Adams

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. 100 other wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Making peace is harder than making war. 24 more quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! 3 wisdom & wit from Daniel Boone

Morality is contraband in war. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. 103 other views from Friedrich Nietzsche

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. 15 other wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. 8 more wisdom & wit from Ezra Pound

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. 28 quotes from Napoleon Hill

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. 9 other quotes from Hannah Arendt

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. 15 other wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. 15 other quotes from Desiderius Erasmus

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. 8 other thoughts from Lewis Mumford

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. 11 other quotes from Henry Van Dyke

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. 2 other quotes from George Wald

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. 18 other wisdom & wit from Baruch Spinoza

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. 19 quotes from Charles de Gaulle

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one. 57 other wisdom & wit from Will Rogers

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. 12 sayings from Gene Tierney

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. 74 views from Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. 78 quotes from Voltaire

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. 74 views from Winston Churchill

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. 20 wisdom & wit from George S. Patton

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. 2 views from Stefan Zweig

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. 18 other quotes from Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. 18 other views from Baruch Spinoza

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill

Sweat saves blood. 2 sayings from Erwin Rommel

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. 57 views from Will Rogers

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. 2 wisdom & wit from George Wald

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. 52 other sayings from Albert Camus

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. 20 quotes from George S. Patton

The United States never lost a war or won a conference. 57 thoughts from Will Rogers

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. 3 more sayings from Leon Trotsky

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. 25 wisdom & wit from Will Durant

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

To hold a pen is to be at war. 78 quotes from Voltaire

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. 74 more wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. 4 other thoughts from Gilbert Parker

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. 7 sayings from Joseph Wood Krutch

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. 14 views from Wendell Phillips

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. 52 more thoughts from Albert Camus

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. 57 sayings from Will Rogers