Cost Of War Quotes

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine."

William Tecumseh Sherman

"What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns."

Wilfred Owen

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."

Herodotus

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

Leo Tolstoy

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

John Steinbeck

"You can't say civilization don't advance – in every war they kill you in a new way."

"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work – I am the grass; I cover all."

Carl Sandburg

"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."

"War is hell."

William Tecumseh Sherman

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?"

Seneca

"I have known war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting."

Douglas MacArthur

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."

Sophocles

"Wars are not paid for in wartime; the bill comes later."

"War is organised murder, and nothing else."

Harry Patch

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

Dwight D. Eisenhower