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Quotes About War

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.
~ Irena Sendler
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.
~ Anthony Shadid
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
~ Tom Cruise
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
~ Ellen Key
This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.
~ James Lovelock
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
~ Herman Kahn
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
~ Wangari Maathai
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
~ David Gemmell
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
~ David Mitchell
The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.
~ Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
~ Dr. John
It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
~ Robert E. Sherwood
I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.
~ Jimmy Carr
It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.
~ Barrett Tillman
A bomb fell on Italy. It slid off!
~ Henny Youngman
A series of howls and war cries echoed through the camp....The werewolves and Japanese had attacked."-pg.353 Forbidden Nights with a Vampire Kerrelyn Sparks
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
~ Michael Lewis
Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
~ Kristin Cashore, Fire
In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.
~ Chris DiCroce, Burning Man