Quotes About War

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

You need a team for war, not for negotiation.