951 private quotes tagged war

“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.” — Chief Joseph

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“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” — John Stuart Mill

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“It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.” — Robert E. Lee

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“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.” — Fidel Castro

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“Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.” — Thor Heyerdahl

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“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” — Euripides

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“The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.” — Marjane Satrapi

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“I'm against all war.” — Puff Daddy

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“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — Isaac Asimov

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“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.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover

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“I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.” — Barry Goldwater

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“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” — Otto von Bismarck

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“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” — David Friedman

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“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” — Carly Simon

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“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” — Salvador Dali

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“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“War is a defeat for humanity.” — Pope John Paul II

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