Quotes About War

I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love