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Quotes About War

What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?
~ Debasish Mridha
Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe.
~ Debasish Mridha
We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.
~ Erasmus, Against War
Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.
~ Ursula Franklin
Peace is not the absence of war—peace is the absence of fear.
~ Ursula Franklin
Going to war to establish peace will not bring peace. It will just kill you.
~ Debasish Mridha
If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war?
~ Debasish Mridha
Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?
~ Colman McCarthy
Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.
~ Colman McCarthy
The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it.
~ Charles Manson
Where's the everlasting peace? Is there even such a thing? Or do we war like alien races war, eternally, against ourselves?
~ Hugh Howey, Beacon 23
In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.
~ Anthony Liccione
By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.
~ Sheldon Richman
There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.
~ Debasish Mridha
You are truly living when you have inner peace. You are far away from the beauty of life when you are fighting a war.
~ Debasish Mridha
To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun.
~ Debasish Mridha
For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.
~ Anthony Liccione
War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
There's never peace in war....perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived
~ Will Leamon
Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.
~ Richard H. Shultz Jr.
Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.
~ Lucas Bale, The Heretic
People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.
~ Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice