Quotes About War

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.