Quotes About War

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Speed is the essence of war.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.