Quotes About War

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war costs millions of dollars a day, and love--just a few bucks a night!

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.