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Quotes About War

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother
~ Anna Freud
If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
~ David Lloyd George
The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.
~ Menachem Begin
If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
~ Karl Liebknecht
I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.
~ Hugh Shelton
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman
~ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!
~ William Halsey
When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.
~ Gail Simone
You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.
~ James Mattis
Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."
~ Al-Nawawi
That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
~ Gertrude Stein
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
~ Knute Nelson
We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?
~ Curtis LeMay
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
~ Smedley Butler
By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.
~ James Monroe
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .
~ Hermann Goring
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
~ William Beveridge
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
~ Golda Meir
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
~ Alexander Berkman
No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
~ Eugene V. Debs
[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.
~ Karen Horney