Quotes About Consequences

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

War is not won by victory.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.