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Quotes About War

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
~ Norman Cousins
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
~ Omar N. Bradley
We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
~ Lal Bahadur Shastri
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.
~ A. Zampolli
It is far easier to make war than peace.
~ Georges Clemenceau
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
~ Menachem Begin
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
~ Norman Mailer
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
~ Ludwig von Mises
What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
~ Pam Gems
Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.
~ Marianne Curley, The Key
In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.
~ Paul Krugman
War will not be able to bring peace—only love and forgiveness can do that.
~ Debasish Mridha
Why have we built warships to bring home peace?
~ Debasish Mridha
We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
~ Stefan Molyneux
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
~ Wilfred Owen
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
~ John Adams
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
~ Mao Zedong