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"O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label."

Andrews, C. D. on war    Share


"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Asquith, Margot on war    Share

"The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness."

Baudelaire, Charles on war    Share

"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."

Baudouin I on war
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"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

Benedict, Ruth on war    Share

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."

Benn, Tony on war
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"The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized."

Bernhardi, Friedrich Von on war    Share

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"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."

Bethe, Hans A. on war    Share

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."

Bismarck, Otto Von on war
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"Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!"

Blok, Alexander on war    Share

"War is like love, it always finds a way."

Brecht, Bertolt on war
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"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."

Churchill, Winston on war
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"The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money."

Cicero, Marcus T. on war    Share

"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means."

Clausewitz, Karl Von on war    Share

"A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience."

Cockburn, Alexander on war    Share

"That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together."

Coward, Noel on war    Share

"War is the trade of Kings."

Dryden, John on war    Share

"War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble."

Dryden, John on war    Share

"America is addicted to wars of distraction."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on war    Share

"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on war    Share

"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on war
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"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on war
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"War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted."

Eliot, T. S. on war    Share

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

Erasmus, Desiderius on war
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"Morality is contraband in war."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."

Gellhorn, Martha on war    Share

"I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on war    Share

"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."

Hazlitt, William on war
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"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry."

Heller, Joseph on war    Share

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