All Quotes

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

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
‐‐ George Orwell

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

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
‐‐ George Washington

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
‐‐ Dave Morris

'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.
‐‐ Simon Kuznets

'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His watercolours are so lovely you could almost eat them, just as members of the target audience have been trying to do for decades.
‐‐ Tobias Hill

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
‐‐ Alva Myrdal

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
‐‐ Bruce Sterling

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
‐‐ Martin Sheen

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.
‐‐ Richard Engel

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
‐‐ Ellen Key

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
‐‐ Dennis Kucinich

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
‐‐ James Madison

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

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

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
‐‐ Amy Goodman

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
‐‐ Nawal El Saadawi

War dehumanizes everyone.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
‐‐ Richard Engel

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.
‐‐ Michael Badnarik

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
‐‐ Scott Nearing

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
‐‐ Bill Moyers

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
‐‐ Margaret Sanger

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

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
‐‐ Edward Everett Hale

War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
‐‐ Ted Turner

War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
‐‐ Ross Perot

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
‐‐ Betty Williams

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
‐‐ Charles Edward Montague

'War Horse' was all flat caps and thick trousers.
‐‐ Matt Milne

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
‐‐ Salvatore Quasimodo

War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.
‐‐ Morrissey

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
‐‐ Carlos Saavedra Lamas

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
‐‐ Charles Mackay

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
‐‐ Ezra Stiles