War Is Pointless Quotes

#1. War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

#3. I would have thought that your being sent by the wisest men in your country, supposedly, to fight a nearly endless, thankless, horrifying, and, finally, pointless war, would have given you sufficient insight into the nature of humanity to last you throughout all eternity!

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Arthur Scargill

#5. The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.

John Keble

#6. The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

Kim Il-sung

#7. All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.

Philippa Gregory

#8. Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be
at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means.
It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

Gore Vidal

#9. None of these doe-eyed beauties, she reminded herself, would last an hour with him in his real skin. He was too wild, too strong, too demanding, and too aggravating. He was perfect.

Nalini Singh

#10. It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures ... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Tove Jansson

#11. I don't know if war is always pointless," she said. "I know it's always tragic.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#12. There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Jon Krakauer

#13. Everything must have been fraudulent and pointless if thousands of years of civilization weren't even able to prevent this river of blood, couldn't stop these torture chambers existing in their hundreds of thousands. Only a military hospital can really show you what war is.

Erich Maria Remarque

#14. You're the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb

L. Duarte

#15. In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#16. They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.

Darren Shan

#17. Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them."
Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

Erin Hunter

#18. In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

Rajneesh

#19. Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Simone De Beauvoir

#20. You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

Joy Browne

#21. I have friends. I want more from you than that. I'm a selfish guy, Jane. If I can't be your lover, if I can't have all of you, then I don't want anything.

Rachel Gibson