Quotes About War

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.