War Quotes

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Albert Camus

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Steven Spielberg

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar N. Bradley

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

Bob Schieffer

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Orson Scott Card

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Smedley Butler

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Ruskin Bond

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

Bertrand Russell

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.

Joseph Boyden

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

Ron Paul

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Alison Lurie

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

Daniel Morgan

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

Sloane Crosley

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Al Gore

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle