War Quotes

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

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

Herodotus

"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."

Erasmus

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

John Steinbeck

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

"Every war is easy to begin but very hard to stop."

Sallust

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Isaac Asimov

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking."

Albert Einstein

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."

Bertrand Russell

"I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!"

Anne Frank

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force."

Simone Weil

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

Hannah Arendt

"Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it."

Hannah Arendt

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."