War Quotes

"If you wish for peace, understand war."

B. H. Liddell Hart

"The object in war is to attain a better peace."

B. H. Liddell Hart

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it."

"All men are my children."

Emperor Ashoka

"Do not reveal your troubles to those who do not know them, nor your weakness to your foes."

Thiruvalluvar

"Cut down a thorny tree while it is young; once grown, it will wound the hand that cuts it."

Thiruvalluvar

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."

George Orwell

"Warfare is just an invention – not a biological necessity."

Margaret Mead

"War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living."

J. Krishnamurti

"War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future."

Pope John Paul II

"Works of love are always works of peace."

Mother Teresa

"The sleep of reason produces monsters."

Francisco Goya

"Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."

"I sing of arms and the man."

Virgil

"When a vote of war is taken, no one reckons on his own death."

Euripides

"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires."

"We do not seek peace in order to be at war, but we go to war that we may have peace."

Saint Augustine

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."

"He would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them."

Joseph Heller

"They carried all they could bear, and then some."

Tim O'Brien

"Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country."

Ambrose Bierce

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

"An armed conflict between nations horrifies us. But the economic war is no better than an armed conflict."

"Make enemies, if you must, of those whose ploughs are bows; but never of those whose ploughs are words."

Thiruvalluvar

"Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall."

Kahlil Gibran