# Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
# Norman Schwarzkopf
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
# Herbert Hoover
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
# Herodotus
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
# Ernest Hemingway
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
# Robert E. Lee
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
# Jeannette Rankin
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
# George Santayana
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
# Francois Fenelon
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
# Bertrand Russell
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
# William Westmoreland
The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.
# Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
# Sun Tzu
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
# Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
# George S. Patton
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
# H. G. Wells
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
# Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
# Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
# Otto von Bismarck
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
# David Friedman
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
# Winston Churchill
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
# Paul Valery
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.
# George McGovern
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
# Thomas Mann
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
# George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
# Shel Silverstein
I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
# Joan Baez
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
# Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
# Sun Tzu
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
# Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
# Voltaire
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
# Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
# Hiram Johnson
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
# William Tecumseh Sherman
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
# Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
# Ernest Hemingway
In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.
# Friedrich Nietzsche
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
# William Westmoreland
War is fear cloaked in courage.
# Ulysses S. Grant
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
# Marcus Tullius Cicero
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
# Sun Tzu
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
# Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
# Napoleon Bonaparte
An army marches on its stomach.
# Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
# Bertrand Russell
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
# Douglas MacArthur
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
# John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
# Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
# John Paul Jones
I have not yet begun to fight!
# Stanley Baldwin
War would end if the dead could return.
# Donald Rumsfeld
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
# John Stuart Mill
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
# John F. Kennedy
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
# Carl Sandburg
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
# Euripides
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
# George S. Patton
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
# Omar N. Bradley
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.
# John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
# Anatole Broyard
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
# Jeane Kirkpatrick
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
# William Tecumseh Sherman
War is hell.
# Havelock Ellis
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
# Sallust
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
# Aldous Huxley
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
# David M. Shoup
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
# Sarah Palin
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
# George S. Patton
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
# Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
# Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
# Helen Thomas
But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer.
# Albert Pike
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
# Erwin Rommel
Sweat saves blood.
# Barbara W. Tuchman
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
# Sophocles
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
# Ernest Hemingway
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.
# Robert E. Lee
What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
# Pope John Paul II
War is a defeat for humanity.
# Fred Woodworth
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.
# Blaise Pascal
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
# John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
# Percy Bysshe Shelley
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.
# John Abbott
War is the science of destruction.
# Plautus
Conquered, we conquer.
# George Washington
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
# Will Rogers
You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
# William Westmoreland
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
# Thomas Jefferson
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
# Ludwig von Mises
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
# Douglas MacArthur
In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
# Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
# Benjamin Franklin
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. #
# Robert E. Lee
The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
# Patrick Henry
The great object is that every man be armed.
# Karl Kraus
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
# George Herbert
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
# Antoine de Saint-Exupery
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
# Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
# Douglas MacArthur
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
# Omar N. Bradley
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
# John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
# Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
# Herbert V. Prochnow
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implement of war.
# Lester B. Pearson
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
# Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
# George Washington
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
# Duke of Wellington
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
# Thomas A. Edison
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
# Isaac Asimov
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
# George S. Patton
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
# Pedro Calderon de la Barca
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
# Henry Kissinger
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
# Ernest Hemingway
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
# Maya Lin
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We’re reaching a time that we’ll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
# Charles Evans Hughes
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
# Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
# Salvador Dali
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
# George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
# Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
# Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
# George Washington
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
# Duke of Wellington
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
# Thomas A. Edison
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
# Isaac Asimov
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
# George S. Patton
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
# Pedro Calderon de la Barca
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
# Henry Kissinger
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
# Ernest Hemingway
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
# Maya Lin
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We’re reaching a time that we’ll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
# Charles Evans Hughes
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
# Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
# Douglas MacArthur
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
# Omar N. Bradley
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
# John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
# Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
# Herbert V. Prochnow
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
# Lester B. Pearson
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
# Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr.
# George Washington
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
# Duke of Wellington
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
# Thomas A. Edison
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
# Isaac Asimov
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
# George S. Patton
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
# Pedro Calderon de la Barca
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
# Henry Kissinger
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
# Ernest Hemingway
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
# Maya Lin
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We’re reaching a time that we’ll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
# Charles Evans Hughes
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
# Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
# Salvador Dali
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
# George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
# Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
# Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
# Gilbert Parker
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
# Ludwig von Mises
War… is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
# Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
# Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
# Unknown
All warfare is based on deception.
# John Kenneth Galbraith
War remains the decisive human failure.
# Napoleon Hill
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
# George McGovern
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
# Henry David Thorea
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
# Omar N. Bradley
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
# George Orwell
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
# Isaac Asimov
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.
# Benjamin Franklin
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
# Jean Giraudoux
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
# John Randolph
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
# Black Kettle
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
# Hillary Clinton
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days – we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
# Murray Rothbard
The State thrives on war – unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it.
# Salvatore Quasimodo
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
# George McGovern
The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
# Ludwig von Mises
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
# Ludwig von Mises
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
# Benjamin Spock
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
# Neville Chamberlain
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
# Isabel Allende
We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
# Wendell Phillips
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
# Mao Zedong
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
# Ambrose Bierce
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.
# Kevin O’Lear
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
# Carl von Clausewitz
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
# William Hazlitt
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
# Douglas MacArthur
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.
# Thomas Friedman
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
# Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
In time of peace prepare for war.
# Helen Fisher
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
# Carly Simon
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
# Julian Treasure
The human voice: It’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a war or say ‘I love you.’ And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don’t listen to them.
# Benito Mussolini
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
# Tech N9ne
The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. I would ask him, ‘When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?’
# Erich Maria Remarque
A hospital alone shows what war is.
# H. L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
# Kevin O’Leary
Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.
# Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
# David Goggins
You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
# Margaret Atwood
War is what happens when language fails.
# Norman Schwarzkopf
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
# John F. Kerry
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
# Ross Kemp
War is not cheap, but it’s the human cost that’s the highest.
# Roger Waters
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
# Noam Chomsky
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
# Rick Renzi
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.
# Joseph Rotblat
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
# Georges Clemenceau
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
# Erich Maria Remarque
A hospital alone shows what war is.
# Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
# Hirohito
The war has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.
# Elton John
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
# George Orwell
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
# Tom Segura
I would trade 20 white babies for an Asian baby. If I’m ever rich, I want a closet full of Asian babies. And I’ll just pull them out whenever I’m feeling down, you know? All kinds. Korean ones. Chinese ones. Vietnamese – not so much. My dad was in the war, and I hold a grudge.
# William Tecumseh Sherman
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
# Isoroku Yamamoto
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
# Madalyn Murray O’Hair
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
# Jonathan Larson
The opposite of war is not peace, it’s creation.
# Woody Allen
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
# Tacitus
A bad peace is even worse than war.
# Marshall McLuhan
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
# Nadia Murad
We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen – prioritizing humanity, not war.
# Xavier Becerra
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
# Charles B. Rangel
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
# Ulysses S. Grant
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
# Bernard Law Montgomery
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
# Shehbaz Sharif
Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.
# Richard M. Nixon
The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
# Joe Baca
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
# Michio Kaku
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.
# Virginia Postre
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
# Carl von Clausewitz
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
# Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They’ll bankrupt you. Don’t ask a general for advice on war, and don’t ask a broker for advice on money.
# Fidel Castro
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
# Marvin Gaye
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
# William S. Burroughs
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
# Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
# Nikki Sixx
It takes all kinds to make the world go ’round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.
# Thomas Hobbes
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
# Jacques Chirac
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
# James P. Hoffa
This union has been divided in like a civil war – brother against brother – sister against sister. And I’m pulling it together. We’ve already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.
# Ann Coulter
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.
# Ross Perot
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.
# Coretta Scott King
The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.
# Charles de Gaulle
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
# Chung Mong-joon
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
# Malala Yousafzai
The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
# Herman Kahn
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
# Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
# Jonathan Haid
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.t
# Doc Hastings
We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.
# Marcus Tullius Cicer
The sinews of war are infinite money.
# Daryn Kagan
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
# Michael Buffer
I didn’t see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.
# Douglas MacArthur
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
# Mike Love
The history of mankind is a history of war.
# Frank B. Kellogg
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
# Glennon Doyle Melton
We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we’re supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person’s heart is different – be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it.
# Dexter Gordon
In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.
# Helen Thomas
War makes strange bedfellows.
# Andrzej Duda
Distorting the history of World War II, denying the crimes of genocide and the Holocaust as well as an instrumental use of Auschwitz to attain any given goal is tantamount to desecration of the memory of the victims whose ashes are scattered here.
# Michael Cimino
There’s nothing good that comes out of war. It’s simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don’t.
# Stephen Douglas
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
# Jefferson Davis
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.
# George Wald
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
# Ang Lee
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
# Rand Paul
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
# Bernie Sanders
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
# George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
# Lewis Thomas
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
# Desiderius Erasmus
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
# Barbara Kingsolver
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.
# George W. Bush
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
# Benjamin Franklin
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
# Frank Whittle
A nation’s ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
# Chiang Kai-shek
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
# Fareed Zakaria
The Berlin Wall wasn’t the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
# Billy Graham
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
# Harlan Coben
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
# Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
# Chuck Palahniuk
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
# Harrison Ford
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
# Nick Harkaway
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
# Andre Maurois
Business is a combination of war and sport.
#H. R. McMaster
There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you’re going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it’s like we called Saddam’s army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
# Victor Hugo
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
# Stephen Kinzer
During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a ‘third force’ in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.
# James Baldwin
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.
# Tommy Franks
No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
# John F. Kenned
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
# Aristotle
We make war that we may live in peace.
# Edmund Spense
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. r
# Ellen G. White
Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
# John Boyne
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren’t actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
# Jon Meacham
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
# Stephen Ambrose
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
# Noah Webster
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
# Mahatma Gandhi
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.
# Charles Hamilton Houston
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
# Hong Chau
My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.
# Ronald Kessler
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.
# Ben Shapiro
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
# Vladimir Putin
We’re no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
# Margaret of Valois
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
# Pope Benedict XVI
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
# Maria Montessori
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
# William Tecumseh Sherman
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
# Ernest Hemingway
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
# Otto von Bismarck
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
# David Goggins
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
# Charles B. Rangel
The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into war. It is the responsibility of Congress to deliberate and consult with the executive branch before involving ourselves in a military conflict.
# Martin Jacques
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.
# Henry Knox
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
# Jake Tapper
My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
# Henry Giroux
Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.
# Georges Clemenceau
It is far easier to make war than peace.
# Ted Turner
Sports is like a war without the killing.
# John Boyle O’Reilly
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country’s liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.
# J. Robert Oppenheimer
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
# Sheri L. Dew
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.
#George Orwell
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
# Nicolas Sarkozy
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
#Duke of Wellington
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
# Walter Cronkite
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost – and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
# Jimmy Carter
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.
# Karl Liebknecht
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
# Jim Mattis
No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.
# Wilfred Owen
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
# William Golding
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
# William Beveridge
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
# Robert Mueller
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
# John Updik
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.
#Robert C. O’Brien
The world has grown increasingly dangerous, with a nuclear madman in North Korea testing an ICBM a month, mullahs in Tehran plotting the takeover of the Middle East, Russia engaging in ‘frozen conflicts’ in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, a very hot civil war in Syria, and China appropriating a vast swath of the Pacific to itself.
# Jon Anderson
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
# Fiona Hill
The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined.
# Thurston Clarke
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans’ belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.
# Thomas Hobbes
The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
# Barack Obama
I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
# Tim O’Brien
What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I’m still struggling with it, 40 years later.
# Feist
I’m a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn’t as insidious as American nationalism, though. It’s good natured. It’s all about maple syrup, not war.
# Layla Moran
The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, ‘if only’.
# Milo Yiannopoulos
Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. They aren’t shy about what they don’t like, which is western civilization, capitalism, and the rule of law. They really dislike the police, and certainly get the credit for the war between black men and police.
# Barack Obama
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
# R. J. Cutler
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that ‘The War Room’ and ‘A Perfect Candidate’ are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
# Vicki Lawrence
I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
# Zbigniew Brzezinski
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
# Otto von Bismarck
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
# Smedley Butler
War is a racket. It always has been… A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
# John Bolton
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
# Curtis LeMay
Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
# Ger Duany
I was born into Sudan’s civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
# Lincoln Chafee
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
# Tony Benn
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
# Manfred von Richthofen
My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
# Margot Robbie
The ’60s are my favorite decade – with the Cold War, the women’s movement. And then there’s the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
# Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
# Douglas MacArthu
In war there is no substitute for victory. r
# Harvey Fierstein
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
# Wilfred Burchett
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
# Desiderius Erasmus
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
# Friedrich St. Florian
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
# Red Auerbach
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
# Mark Rylance
My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself ‘the American’ at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.
# Joseph Stiglitz
Behind Trump’s promise to ‘make America great again’ lie many fallacies. The most important fallacy is that America’s place in the world can be restored to the one it occupied after World War II, when Europe was still recovering from vast devastation and most developing countries were still European colonies. It can’t be.
# Bill Burr
Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he’s like, ‘Umm, I’m taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate’s, like, half Afghani, so it’s going to cause some static.’
# Clint Eastwood
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’
# Kim Il-sung
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
# Suzanne Collins
I don’t write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
# A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
# Kitty Kelley
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.
# Meir Kahane
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
# Jimmy Carter
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
# A’Lelia Bundles
Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.
# Henry Kissinger
You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.
# Karl Liebknecht
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
# Voltaire
To hold a pen is to be at war. #
# Martin Scorsese
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
# Sun Yat-sen
Judging from the experience of the European War, imperialism renders no great benefit to any nation, whereas liberty for all nationalities is the only principle by which humanity will ever be saved.
# B. H. Liddell Hart
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
# William Westmoreland
It’s the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
# Lester B. Pearson
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
# Duke of Wellington
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.
# Mary Jo White
I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage – respect, if you will – that the SEC has. Major companies, in particular, really don’t want to be at war with their primary regulator. The SEC may not have appreciated just how great our leverage is.
# Stanley Kubrick
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
# P. J. O’Rourke
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
# Jason Mraz
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
# Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.
# Aly Khan
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
# Bobby Sands
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
# Joy Harjo
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.
# Molly Ivins
I’ve said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were ‘German dogs.’ They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.
# Sun Tzu
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.
# John Boyd Orr
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.