Quotes About War

In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

I think it is essential that America does not stumble into a stupid war with Iran.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

War is young men dying and old men talking

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.