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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
J. B. Priestley
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane Satrapi
What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!
Leo Tolstoy
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? Natural death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful.
George Orwell
It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers. War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for want of a public.
George Eliot
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Smedley Butler
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Thomas Hobbes
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
John Podhoretz
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
Alfred Adler
War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Jessica Savitch
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
Pope Paul VI
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
Charles Schumer
In war, there are no winners.
Ramman Kenoun
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Charles de Montesquieu
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
Stephen King
