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Quotes About War

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
~ Edmund Burke
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.
~ Ishmael Beah
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
~ Julian Bond
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.
~ Camille Paglia
This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.
~ Frank Church
Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
~ Nicholas von Hoffman
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.
~ Jose Bergamin
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
~ J. F. C. Fuller
In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.
~ Dorothy Thompson
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.
~ H. L. Mencken
But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
~ Mother Teresa
War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.
~ Óscar Arias
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
~ Harry Browne
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.
~ Riane Eisler
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
~ Thomas Paine
I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.
~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.
~ Daniel Inouye
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
~ Victor Cousin
And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
All wars will be settled by sea power.
~ Erich Raeder
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
~ Atticus Shaffer