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Quotes About War

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
~ Joseph Stalin
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
~ John Green
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
~ Gunther Schuller
Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.
~ Jim Ryun
Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
~ J. D. Hayworth
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
~ Benjamin Spock
Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...
~ Louis Pasteur
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell
I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.
~ Hannibal
People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.
~ Stonewall Jackson
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.
~ Arundhati Roy
I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.
~ Catherine the Great
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
~ George C. Marshall
After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.
~ Audie Murphy
To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."
~ Ali Khamenei
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
~ Harri Holkeri
Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?
~ Chief Powhatan
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.
~ Oswald Spengler
I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
~ Joan Baez
We are on God's side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It's a war between God and the devil.
~ Benny Hinn
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.
~ Curtis LeMay
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
~ Henry George