All Quotes

War is the trade of Kings.
‐‐ John Dryden

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.
‐‐ David Hackworth

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
‐‐ Barbara Tuchman

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
‐‐ Benito Mussolini

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
‐‐ Georges Clemenceau

War is too strange to process alone.
‐‐ Phil Klay

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
‐‐ David Mamet

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
‐‐ Dennis Weaver

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
‐‐ George Orwell

War is what happens when language fails.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
‐‐ John McCain

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
‐‐ Bayard Rustin

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
‐‐ Beilby Porteus

War itself is the enemy of the human race.
‐‐ Howard Zinn

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

War makes strange bedfellows.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
‐‐ Ernie Pyle

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
‐‐ George Herbert

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.
‐‐ John C. Calhoun

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
‐‐ Alexander Berkman

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
‐‐ Nathan Bedford Forrest

War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.
‐‐ Alan Moore

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

War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
‐‐ Carlos Saavedra Lamas

War of attrition, war of wills. That's what the Stanley Cup playoffs are - more intense, more physical and more prolonged than the playoffs of any other sport.
‐‐ George Vecsey

'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
‐‐ Zbigniew Brzezinski

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
‐‐ Alexander Berkman

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
‐‐ Ludwig von Mises

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
‐‐ Andre Malraux

War remains the decisive human failure.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.
‐‐ Kathryn Bigelow

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.
‐‐ Henry Allingham

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Annaud

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
‐‐ Victor Davis Hanson

War settles nothing.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
‐‐ Charles Evans Hughes

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
‐‐ Colin Powell