951 private quotes tagged war

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” — Albert Einstein

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“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” — Sun Tzu

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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.” — Winston Churchill

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“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.” — Julius Caesar

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“It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire

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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“All war is deception.” — Sun Tzu

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“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” — Woody Allen

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“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.” — Will Rogers

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“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” — John F. Kennedy

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“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.” — Thomas Paine

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“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.” — John F. Kennedy

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“War settles nothing.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.” — Albert Einstein

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“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” — Sun Tzu

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“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.” — Aldous Huxley

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“War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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