War Quotes - page 3

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. (George Orwell)
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. View quote
Winston Churchill
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
That's the ultimate pornography... There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war. View quote
Tom Clancy
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. View quote
George C. Marshall
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. (Ron Paul)
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
War is what happens when language fails. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. View quote
George S. Patton
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. View quote
George Washington
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. View quote
George Santayana
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. View quote
James Baldwin
Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. (William McKinley)
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. View quote
William McKinley
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. View quote
Herbert Hoover
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation! View quote
Jonathan Larson
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