War Quotes

"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?"

"The Beloved of the Gods considers victory by Dhamma to be the foremost victory."

Emperor Ashoka

"Enmity, that evil thing, should not be desired even in jest."

Thiruvalluvar

"More foolish than a madman is he who, standing alone, makes enemies of many."

Thiruvalluvar

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

Sophocles

"War is a matter not so much of arms as of money."

Thucydides

"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please."

"Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished."

Immanuel Kant

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

Samuel Johnson

"The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown."

William Blake

"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin. 'Why that I cannot tell,' said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.'"

Robert Southey

"Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind."

Stephen Crane

"Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

Ambrose Bierce

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."

Leo Tolstoy

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."

"War creates no absolutely new situation; it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it."

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell

"There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre."

Kurt Vonnegut

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

Albert Einstein

"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy."

Pablo Picasso

"Seed corn must not be ground."

Käthe Kollwitz

"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."

"We have guided missiles and misguided men."