War is like love; it always finds a way.
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
‐‐ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
‐‐ Alva Myrdal
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
‐‐ Ron Paul
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.
‐‐ Ehud Barak
War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
‐‐ Richard Engel
War is not a thing one wants.
‐‐ Hans Frank
War is not an academic exercise.
‐‐ Scott Ritter
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz
War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.
‐‐ Ross Kemp
War is not civilized.
‐‐ Talib Kweli
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
‐‐ Alfred Hermann Fried
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
‐‐ Lois McMaster Bujold
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek
War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.
‐‐ Scott Ritter
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
‐‐ Marvin Gaye
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
‐‐ Alfred Adler
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
‐‐ Gustav Heinemann
War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
‐‐ Cardinal Richelieu
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
‐‐ Thomas Mann
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
‐‐ Alfred Adler
War is over if you want it.
‐‐ Yoko Ono
War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid of.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
‐‐ George Orwell
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
‐‐ Karl Marlantes
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
‐‐ A. A. Milne
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus
War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness
War is the business of barbarians.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz
War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.
‐‐ David Douglas Duncan
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
‐‐ Aaron Huey
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
‐‐ Martin Luther
War is the province of danger.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz
War is the science of destruction.
‐‐ John Abbott
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
‐‐ Jeannette Rankin
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
‐‐ Lewis Mumford