All Quotes

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
‐‐ M. F. K. Fisher

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

War is a contagion.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is a defeat for humanity.
‐‐ Pope John Paul II

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!
‐‐ Graydon Carter

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

War is a perversion of sex.
‐‐ Alan Moore

War is a profane thing.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
‐‐ Smedley Butler

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

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
‐‐ Georges Clemenceau

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
‐‐ Albert Pike

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
‐‐ George Orwell

War is about dead people.
‐‐ Scott Ritter

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

War is an abstraction.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
‐‐ Phil Klay

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
‐‐ Scott Nearing

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
‐‐ Malcolm Lowry

War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
‐‐ Jon Anderson

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
‐‐ Adrien Brody

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
‐‐ Phil Klay

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
‐‐ Gilbert Parker

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
‐‐ Aaron Huey

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
‐‐ James Blunt

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
‐‐ George Orwell

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

War is failure of diplomacy.
‐‐ John Dingell

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.
‐‐ Cherie Lunghi

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
‐‐ Ted Nugent

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.
‐‐ Chris Kyle

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.
‐‐ Horst Faas

War is horrible because it strangles youth.
‐‐ Philip Kearny

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
‐‐ Rosanne Cash

War is in the eyes.
‐‐ David Douglas Duncan

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
‐‐ Smedley Butler

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

War is just an effect, not a cause.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

War is just one more big government program.
‐‐ Joseph Sobran

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli