War Quotes

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."

Wilfred Owen

"Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives."

Siegfried Sassoon

"The real war will never get in the books."

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

Douglas MacArthur

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

José Narosky

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

William Tecumseh Sherman

"Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice."

"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means."

"Yet this will go onward the same though Dynasties pass."

Thomas Hardy

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

W. B. Yeats

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

Carl Sandburg

"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, given to redeem the human mind from error, there were no need of arsenals or forts."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Word over all, beautiful as the sky, beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost."

"Ring out the thousand wars of old, ring in the thousand years of peace."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it."

George C. Marshall

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."

Omar Bradley

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"War is always a defeat for humanity."

Pope Francis

"It happened, therefore it can happen again."

Primo Levi

"What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again."

Anne Frank

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

"War is the realm of uncertainty."

Carl von Clausewitz

"I will either find a way or make one."

Hannibal

"You can only fight the way you practice."

Miyamoto Musashi