Top 100 Make War Quotes
#1. Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.
Dale E. Turner
#2. Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.
Matthias Corvinus
#3. A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
#4. That you don't make war without knowing why.
Tim O'Brien
#5. Though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?
Pearl S. Buck
#6. People always make war when they say they love peace.
D.H. Lawrence
#7. Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.
Peter Heather
#8. We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
John Galsworthy
#9. It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.
John Jay
#10. I just want to stop the cycle of killing," Freddy said. "It isn't necessary. It isn't even necessary that people eat meat. And it certainly isn't necessary that people make war on people. I'm doing my small part to change the species." "Umm," said Howard.
Ernest Hebert
#11. When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision.
Neil Postman
#12. When the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
Pearl S. Buck
#13. Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Mark's closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. I'm off to make war, so that you may have love.
Zechariah Barrett
#14. It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.
Randal Cremer
#15. Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.
Ralph Barton Perry
#16. No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
Gregory Maguire
#17. Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
#18. It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.
Mark Lawrence
#19. When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#20. You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.
Albert Camus
#21. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is going to make war on everything that hinders love, with his eyes blazing fire.
Lou Engle
#22. Such a small question, little mouse. Why. Yet, such a large answer. Suffice it to say that the gods are at war. And when the gods make war, it's we little mice who pay the price."
~Dal Durvaas, The Living Gods
W.M. Driscoll
#23. It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end
Primo Levi
#25. Don't make war in daytime, because children are playing in the streets; don't make war in night time, because children are sleeping in their beds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. If you would make war,' he would say to to General d'Hedouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.
Andrew Roberts
#30. For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
Ken Mehlman
#31. Soldiers don't make war. Soldiers fight war. Politicians make war.
Lawrence Withrow
#32. Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Nam June Paik
#33. It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#34. Those deterrents - the brotherhood of socialists, the interlocking of finance, commerce, and other economic factors - which had been expected to make war impossible failed to function when the time came. Nationhood, like a wild gust of wind, arose and swept them aside. People
Barbara W. Tuchman
#35. I am a free Prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who has a hundred ships at sea and an army of 100,000 men in the field."
-Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy
Colin Woodard
#36. When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
Thomas Merton
#37. Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!
Richard Hovey
#38. There are few things that's forever, my lady.
We can make war or make babies.
Method Man
#39. In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor, ... I underscore the verb 'stop.' I'm not saying 'bomb' or 'make war,' just 'stop.' And the means that can be used to stop them must be evaluated.
Pope Francis
#40. Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
Alva Myrdal
#41. God does not make war? God makes us, and we make war. God makes war.
Aaron B. Powell
#42. When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.
LeBron James
#43. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
Abbie Hoffman
#44. Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.
Aldous Huxley
#45. We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#46. At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.
Hideki Tojo
#47. A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.
George Herbert
#48. To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.
Megan Whalen Turner
#49. Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?
Laini Taylor
#50. It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?
Phyllis Bottome
#51. The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.
Guglielmo Marconi
#52. Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.
Dennis Prager
#53. Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.
George W. Bush
#54. Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.
Richard Rorty
#55. If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.
Yoko Ono
#56. It struck Yuki as almost comic that humans drew lines on the globe, and on both sides of those lines raised up armies. Then they fought and died to take possession of...what? Hills. Yuki knew he had to fight, and had to win, but that didn't make war anything to be proud of.
Dean Hughes
#57. This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.
Henry David Thoreau
#58. Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
Benjamin Franklin
#59. We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle.
#60. Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.
Voltaire
#61. If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which exist in Europe and America ... War is progressive, because all the instruments and elements of war are progressive.
Ulysses S. Grant
#62. If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant
#63. Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
Kurt Vonnegut
#65. To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
T.E. Lawrence
#66. Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.
John Locke
#67. I wasn't here to make love. I was here to make war.
R.K. Lilley
#68. Bao is the acceptance that mankind is part of the fabric of the universe, not the purpose of it. Humanity is meant to live as part of creation, not as the owner of it or to make war against it.
Sheri S. Tepper
#69. You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.
John Le Carre
#70. If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war,
Michael Herr
#71. In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love - carefully.
Robert F. Kennedy
#72. In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting in his benevolence against the misuse of the delegated power and in his wisdom to govern justly and make war successfully.
B.F. Skinner
#73. We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#74. Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#76. It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
Pythagoras
#77. If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?
Germaine Greer
#78. I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.
Christopher Hitchens
#79. The draft," he shouts, "is white people sending black people to make war on yellow people in order to defend the land they stole from red people. The draft must end: not tomorrow, not next week, but today.
Tavis Smiley
#80. Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.
Ronald Reagan
#81. I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.
D.H. Lawrence
#82. Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1).
Shawntel Jefferson
#83. Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#84. Make love or make war shug, but make something happen.
Jenny Han
#85. Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.
Monica Crowley
#86. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Abraham Lincoln
#87. One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.
Pope Francis
#88. You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Henry A. Kissinger
#89. I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain.
Matt Chandler
#91. States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ...
H.G.Wells
#92. Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
Sherwood Smith
#93. History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which it can reach the frontiers of the state it wants to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds such frontiers.
J. Stalin
#94. On the streets of Moscow, looking into thousands of faces, I was reminded once again that it's not people who make war, but governments - and people deserve governments that fight for peace in the nuclear age.
Ronald Reagan
#95. Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
Alice Walker
#96. It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.
Frederick The Great
#97. Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot ... He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.
Tertullian
#98. Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.
Ho Chi Minh
#99. One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.
Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace.
Adriano Bulla
