951 private quotes tagged war

“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.” — Martin Luther

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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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“All war is deception.” — Sun Tzu

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

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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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“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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“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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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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“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.” — Sophocles

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“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.” — James Madison

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“Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.” — George Galloway

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“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.” — Jodie Foster

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“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.” — Benito Mussolini

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“God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.” — John Donne

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“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.” — Julius Caesar

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“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“In time of war the laws are silent.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.” — George S. Patton

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