Top 100 War Is Quotes
#1. News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.
Abigail Disney
#3. We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#4. It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E.Lee
#6. If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.
Jacque Fresco
#7. But you can't make war personal, or you'll never make the right decisions.'
'And if you didn't make personal decisions, you wouldn't be a person. All war is personal somehow, isn't it? For somebody? Except it's usually hate.
Patrick Ness
#8. War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.
Brian A. McBride
#9. Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
Fannie Hurst
#10. While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.
Joe Heck
#11. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#12. I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
Madeleine Albright
#13. Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
Phil Klay
#14. War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.
Giles Duley
#17. You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
William Kirby
#18. If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.
Patrick Ness
#19. How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
David Gemmell
#20. War is never good for commerce. Lest your trading in steel o'course.
Anthony Ryan
#21. The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#22. War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
Scott Nearing
#23. The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
William Faulkner
#24. If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another ... after the war is on.
Robert M. La Follette
#25. Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.
Erich Maria Remarque
#26. Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.
James A. Moore
#27. Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.
Anthony Marra
#28. They say in death our war is over. I don't believe that.
Paul Allor
#29. Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
Ludwig Von Mises
#31. We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.
Kyle Bass
#32. War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.
Miles Cameron
#33. When humankind possesses enormous new powers, and when the threat of famine, plague and war is finally lifted, what will we do with ourselves? What will the scientists, investors, bankers and presidents do all day? Write poetry? Success
Yuval Noah Harari
#34. A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
Michael Shaara
#36. The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
Tony Blair
#37. The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
Ellen Key
#39. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.
Aleksandr Voinov
#40. Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut.
David Horsey
#41. Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
William Kirby
#43. The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.
P.C. Cast
#44. For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.
Michael Lind
#45. Frankly, I had enjoyed the war ... and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?
Adrian Carton De Wiart
#47. A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
Andrei Platonov
#48. The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.
Dalai Lama
#50. War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
Gustav Heinemann
#51. War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
Adrienne Rich
#52. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
Sun Tzu
#53. After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.
David Crosby
#54. The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means ... He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents ... '
In short, the end justifies the means.
Henry Kissinger
#55. When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.
Tim O'Brien
#57. War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
Rudyard Kipling
#58. Our life alternates between billets and the front. We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely
Erich Maria Remarque
#59. Real peace is as creative and as pure as war is destructive; and to find that peace, one must understand beauty.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#60. Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.
Immanuel Kant
#61. Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
David Hackworth
#62. America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.
Arthur Goldberg
#64. I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.
Ann Coulter
#65. Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
George Orwell
#66. If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
Preston Sturges
#67. The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
Ida Tarbell
#68. A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.
Clint Eastwood
#69. That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.
Christopher Isherwood
#70. Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#71. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.
Julie Burchill
#72. The glorious hours sound not just for heroic action on the battlefield but also for those activities that occur in daily life, for it is when war is over that a soldier's heart and character are also revealed.
Don Kladstrup
#73. Talk less, but work more, be united and ready, the war is close
Ali Altantawi
#74. I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.
Lucretia Mott
#75. War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.
Howard Zinn
#76. The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
Jerry Brown
#77. The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Naji Sabri
#78. War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
Cesare Pavese
#81. The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.
Hannah Arendt
#82. The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
Jonathan Winters
#83. If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.
George Friedman
#84. Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
John D. MacDonald
#85. Procrastination and fear are the enemies of success; the war is lifelong, but the battles are daily.
Noel DeJesus
#86. Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [ ... ] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.
Charles Krauthammer
#87. World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.
David Frum
#88. In every battle, there is a death. The loser may laugh it off if the war is short and sweet and without cost. Or the loser may bleed out, if the war is to the death.
Yasmine Galenorn
#89. Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.
David Limbaugh
#90. The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.
Ann Coulter
#93. This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it doesn't really matter what he was referring to ...
Ann Coulter
#94. International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.
Eknath Easwaran
#95. All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.
Bill Hicks
#96. War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate
Marvin Gaye
#97. The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.
Chris Hedges
#98. War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.
Stanislaw Lem
#100. War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.
Calvin Coolidge
