Quotes About War

The military played polo. Polo, really, started as a game to train for war.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.