War Quotes - page 2

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. (Heraclitus)
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. View quote
Sun Tzu
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. View quote
George Orwell
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it. View quote
George Orwell
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. View quote
Karl Kraus
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. View quote
Thomas Mann
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. View quote
Sun Tzu
All oppression creates a state of war. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. View quote
Robert E. Lee
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. View quote
Rebecca West
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. View quote
Woody Allen
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
You can't say civilization isn't advancing in every war they kill you in a new way. View quote
Will Rogers
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. (Grace Hopper)
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Accurst be he that first invented war. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. View quote
George Orwell
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