Quotes About War

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Making peace is harder than making war.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA.

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.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.