Quotes About War

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace, ' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry.

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

Mama, unforgivingness breeds war; exploited resentment, treasured grievances. If we don't learn to forget a wrong no sooner than it's done or said, if we don't all of us—privately and collectively—draw a line below the past every day of our lives, we're going to be sunk. We are sunk.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.