Quotes About Stupidity Of War

#1. In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

Zelda Popkin

#3. Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

Max Hastings

#4. The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity.

Stephen King

#6. Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Patrick Chappatte

#7. The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

Barney Frank

#8. But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

Orson Scott Card

#9. The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

Claudio Magris

#10. She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Joan Rivers

#11. That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

Peter McWilliams

#12. When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

Albert Camus

#13. The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

Philip Pullman

#14. The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

Aristotle.

#15. According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

Kenneth Waltz

#16. Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul
Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

Richard Eberhart

#17. I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.

Jack Nicklaus

#18. Khaldoun believed that the great curse of civilization is not war or famine but humidity: "When the moisture, with its evil vapors ascends to the brain, the mind and body and the ability to think are dulled. The result is stupidity, carelessness and a general intemperance.

Eric Weiner

#19. You can wash your face will cool green tea or apply it topically twice a day to draw out impurities, shrink large pores and get a healthy skin glow.

Sukhmani Grover

#20. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. a

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#21. The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. Smartass Disciple: Master, you should teach people not to do war to each other.
Master of Stupidity: I should teach people how to win their minds of their wars.

Toba Beta

#23. The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Octave Mirbeau

#24. You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

David Eddings

#25. The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men.

Jeff Shaara

#26. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Alexander Berkman

#27. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Gabriel Chevallier

#28. I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#29. I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

Maggie Smith