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Quotes About War

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?
~ Rick Riordan
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.
~ Christiane Amanpour
War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.
~ Martin Van Creveld
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.
~ Ralph Nader
Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
~ Billy Childish
If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.
~ Bashar al-Assad
America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.
~ Jim Hightower
The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.
~ Tucker Carlson
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.
~ Kenneth Waltz
To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
~ Barry Goldwater
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
~ William Cowper
Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.
~ Samael Aun Weor
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
~ George Will
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
~ U Thant
If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
~ Dennis Weaver
You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.
~ Eddie Izzard
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
~ Harold Pinter
I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.
~ Boris Nemtsov
God is always at war with sin
~ G. Campbell Morgan