War Quotes

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Sophocles

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Napoleon Hill

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Benito Mussolini

Rest in peace. The Mistake shall not be repeated.

Cenotoph

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Paul Valery

Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

Thomas Hardy

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

Loren Eiseley

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Rudyard Kipling

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Havelock Ellis

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Aldous Huxley

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Daisaku Ikeda

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

Ron Fournier

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Ellen Key

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

George McGovern

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Harry Browne

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

Cindy Sheehan

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Ernest Hemingway

Once respect has been initiated, war is less provocative.

Andrea Scholer