951 private quotes tagged war

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“War is the business of barbarians.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”— H. L. Mencken
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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”— John F. Kennedy
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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”— Bertrand Russell
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“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”— George Washington
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”— Bertrand Russell
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“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.”— James Madison
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“If we don't end war, war will end us.”— H. G. Wells
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“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”— Howard Zinn
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“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”— Helen Keller
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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”— Winston Churchill
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“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”— E. B. White
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“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”— John F. Kennedy
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“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”— George Orwell
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“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”— Carl Sandburg