Quotes about War

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. -Jean"

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."

"If we don't end war, war will end us."

"What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors."

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."

"War is the science of destruction."

"To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."

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

"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print."

"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."

"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."

"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."

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."

"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead."

"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."