Quotes About War

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.