Quotes About War

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.