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Quotes About War

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.
~ Isabel Allende
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
~ Jack Ma
The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.
~ Hirohito
A hospital alone shows what war is.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Washington
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
~ George McGovern
If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral.
~ Volodymyr Zelensky
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
~ Fidel Castro
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.
~ Marshall McLuhan
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
~ Bernard Law Montgomery
The Muslims are, as a group, attacking people because under the Quran, there is the house of Islam, and outside of it, there's the house of war.
~ Alex Jones
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.
~ Petro Poroshenko
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~ A. J. P. Taylor
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.
~ Stephen Douglas
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
~ Plato
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
~ Jonathan Larson
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
~ Georges Clemenceau
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.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
~ Noam Chomsky
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
~ J. B. Priestley
No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.
~ Tom Malinowski
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
~ Mario Puzo