Quotes About War

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.