Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with War.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
William Shakespeare
Our people... will give you all the necessaries of war they produce, if, instead of the bankrupt trash they now are obliged to receive for want of any other, you will give them a paper promise funded on a specific pledge, and of a size for common circulation.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth... rocks.
Albert Einstein
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
George McGovern
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Anatole Broyard
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
Alice Walker
You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know.
Anon., from Viet Nam, 1968
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chautauqu
When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
African Proverb
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
Antonia Fraser
I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
Karl Lagerfeld
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
James Lovelock
All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
Gary Bauer
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.
Karl Von Clausewitz
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
Arthur Henderson
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron Paul
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
