War Quotes
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Carl von Clausewitz
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Albert Einstein
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombss
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks.
Bob Dylan
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd
War is much too serious to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau
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
Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton
All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
Eleanor Roosevelt
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Jose Narosky
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers bury their sons.
Francis Bacon. Sr.
All the arms we need are for hugging.
Author Unknown
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.
Arthur Koestler
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
Very little is known about the war of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
Eric Nicol
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
After the war, aid.
Greek Proverb
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
Poltiics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung