Quotes About War

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.

It would harm me more to be living a life without meaning. In a war, everyone knows they're experiencing something important.

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.

That is what I hate most about this war game. It cuts off communication between peoples. We cannot ask questions and so we cannot get answers.

This country of his was not like some others he had heard of, where only in war was there work enough to be done. He had often sat listening in the tea shop to those who talked of things they had seen in foreign countries, and this he held was a main difference, that in foreign countries war was a business, but here it had never been.

It is but another war somewhere. Who knows what all this fighting to and fro is about? But so it has been since I was a lad and so will it be after I am dead and well I know it.

Now although it is said that lords of war should be subservient in a nation to the civil governors of the people, it is a thing known and proved that the power goes always to the armed man and the man with weapons, and how can a weaponless man, even though he has the right, oppose a man of war in the same region with him, who has soldiers to his command?

Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.