Quotes About War

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

War will make corpses of us all.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.