Quotes About The Folly Of War

#1. The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.

Philip Short

#3. Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#4. If it rains during sunshine, don't worry; you'll see your rainbow.

Vikrmn

#5. Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Dan Simmons

#6. Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#7. War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet ...

Stephen King

#9. Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.

Brian Kilmeade

#10. War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

James Madison

#11. As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.

Guy Sajer

#12. In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.

Andrei Makine

#13. The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

Margaret Thatcher

#14. To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly
may someday be won after all.

Isaac Asimov

#15. [Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year ... what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Winston Churchill

#16. In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston S. Churchill

#17. Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by and election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#20. Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one's words before opening one's mouth.

Tad Williams

#21. War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#22. The assistant, a young man with a single-digit body mass index, looks ill at ease. He visibly struggles to control his urge to snatch the box out of Ove's hands.

Fredrik Backman

#23. Anyone who claims they have a genius for war should be regarded as the greatest of fools. For the successful conduct of war is an exercise in the management of folly.

Anthony Ryan

#24. If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations

Lyndon B. Johnson

#25. The greatest happiness [ ... ] is to sneeze when you want to.

L.M. Montgomery

#26. I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with full-time security. They live with the threat of getting kidnapped, or they live with the threat of people invading their homes.

Jamie Johnson

#27. Love may be nothing more than a complex interaction of hormones, conditioned behavior, and positive reinforcement, but try writing a poem or song about that.

Rick Yancey

#28. A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

H. H. Asquith