Quotes About War

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.