Quote 29 | All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. |
Quote 57 | It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. |
Quote 75 | I have not yet begun to fight!
- John Paul Jones |
Quote 123 | It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy w... |
Quote 137 | Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not f... |
Quote 203 | He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him ... |
Quote 212 | If we don't end war, war will end us.
- H. G. Wells |
Quote 227 | An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Quote 297 | The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. |
Quote 331 | I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. |
Quote 349 | I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an un... |
Quote 363 | It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. |
Quote 390 | If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? |
Quote 407 | In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. |
Quote 444 | I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. |
Quote 860 | I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. |
Quote 1109 | No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. |
Quote 1317 | A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. |
Quote 1691 | A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. |
Quote 2363 | We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. |
Quote 2418 | In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. |
Quote 2516 | All war is deception.
- Sun Tzu |
Quote 3350 | War does not determine who is right - only who is left. |
Quote 3690 | The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. |
Quote 4407 | There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even... |
Quote 6792 | The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. |
Quote 7719 | War is the symptom, not the disease.
- L. M. Heroux |
Quote 7736 | War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing... |
Quote 7816 | War would end if the dead could return.
- Stanley Baldwin |
Quote 7937 | When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. |
Quote 8097 | The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. |
Quote 8569 | Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. |
Quote 8744 | War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. |
Quote 8878 | One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it. |
Quote 8940 | Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. |
Quote 8951 | War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. |
Quote 9045 | One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. |
Quote 9122 | We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. |
Quote 9192 | The first casualty when war comes is truth.
- Hiram Johnson |
Quote 9444 | War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
- Barbara Tuchman |
Quote 9547 | War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
- George Herbert |
Quote 9632 | There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. |
Quote 9694 | What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers... |
Quote 9757 | The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a te... |
Quote 10500 | John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only ... |
Quote 10741 | The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. |
Quote 10947 | The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. |
Quote 11190 | The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. |
Quote 11342 | Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. |
Quote 11362 | You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. |
Quote 11479 | Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. |
Quote 11487 | When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. |
Quote 11512 | We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. |
Quote 11566 | Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by ... |
Quote 11674 | What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. |
Quote 11712 | The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. |
Quote 11795 | Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. |
Quote 11825 | There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin |
Quote 11863 | There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. |
Quote 11906 | It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't ju... |
Quote 11945 | War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. |
Quote 12019 | War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. |
Quote 12048 | We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. |
Quote 12135 | To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. |
Quote 12357 | Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. |
Quote 12812 | In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. |
Quote 12889 | We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight i... |
Quote 12963 | Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
- George Santayana |
Quote 13015 | You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. |
Quote 13023 | Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. |
Quote 13349 | Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know abou... |
Quote 13365 | The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. |
Quote 13636 | There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. |
Quote 13786 | Sweat saves blood.
- Erwin Rommel |
Quote 13952 | It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. |
Quote 14069 | Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. |