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Quotes About War

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
~ Elie Wiesel
Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
~ Euripides
If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.
~ John F. Kennedy
We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.
~ Ari Fleischer
The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.
~ William Dean Howells
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.
~ Nuruddin Farah
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
~ Melina Mercouri
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.
~ Farrah Fawcett
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
~ Irene Khan
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.
~ Alfred von Tirpitz
Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?
~ Ann Coulter
To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
~ Marianne Williamson
We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.
~ Heidi Klum
The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.
~ Carl Andrew Spaatz
I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.
~ Adolf Hitler
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
~ Harold Pinter
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
~ Sun Tzu
The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
~ John Fowles
In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
~ Doris Lessing
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.
~ William Howard Taft