War Quotes

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

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.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.