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Quotes About War

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
~ Sam Peckinpah
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.
~ Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
~ Coretta Scott King
The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU
~ Martin Schulz
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.
~ Roy Keane
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
~ John Eldredge
Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.
~ Jan Smuts
It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.
~ Bob Marley
War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.
~ Paula Scher
Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.
~ Emilie Schindler
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on
~ Robert Capa
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.
~ H. H. Asquith
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
~ Dustin Hoffman
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
~ Oscar Wilde
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
~ Barbara Tuchman
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.
~ Ralph Bunche
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
~ Will Durant
We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism
~ Joseph Stalin
War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.
~ Andy Borowitz