Top 84 Worst War Quotes
#1. It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.
Noam Chomsky
#2. In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.
William J. Clinton
#3. U.S. history that while the nation fought its greatest war against the world's worst racist, it maintained a segregated army abroad and a total system of discrimination at home.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#4. The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst.
H. E. Fosdick
#5. I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
Antonio Tabucchi
#6. Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves? ... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.
Kate Elliott
#7. The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
Paul Fussell
#8. You're fighting this war in the worst way possible."
"I don't know how to fight it, Dad."
"You should ask for help," he said.
"I don't know how to do that, either.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#9. The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
Hamid Karzai
#10. In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.
Dexter Filkins
#11. Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
Josh Gad
#12. The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories.
Moonshine Noire
#14. As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities ... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
Lynsey Addario
#15. Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.
Sun Tzu
#16. People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#17. War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!
Graydon Carter
#18. War is the worst thing that can happen to us, it is worse than a disease; it set our hearts on fire and burns our souls to dust.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#19. Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.
Kofi Annan
#20. The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
Tacitus
#22. Courting is always difficult when the one being courted has an elderly female relative in the house; they tend to mutter or cackle or bum cigarettes or, in the worst cases, get out the family photograph album, an act of aggression in the sex war which ought to be banned by a Geneva Convention.
Terry Pratchett
#23. The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation
Sun Tzu
#24. The worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.
Fritz Gerlich
#25. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Chris Kyle
#26. Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.
Chris Hayes
#27. The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
#28. [E]scaping is its own special brand of pain, and tied to you always are the strings of the souls who didn't save themselves. ~ "The Worst You Ever Feel
Rebecca Makkai
#29. Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
Bill Murray
#30. Say they who counsel war; 'we are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe; Whatever doing, what can we suffer more, What can we suffer worse?' Is this then worst,
John Milton
#31. I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.
Lindsey Graham
#32. Where war goes on without end, all men are inevitably corrupted by its brutality
and the worst horrors are visited upon the most innocent.
Michael Ennis
#33. It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world
Rosa Brooks
#34. The worst is, I remain so stone cold. Does this war make you an 'alive-dead person'? Is it not possible to remain yourself in this chaos? How long still?
Diet Eman
#35. War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.
Stanislaw Lem
#36. Ari, Ari, Ari. You're fighting this war in the worst possible way.
Anonymous
#37. I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!
Walt Whitman
#38. No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#39. There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.
Neil Lowe
#40. Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
Orison Swett Marden
#41. Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming.
John Wray
#42. I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history. We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war.
John McCain
#44. I was against it [war in Middle East]. And I was against it very early. And we shouldn't have been in there. And I think it is probably perhaps the worst mistake we have ever made. First of all, they didn't knock down the World Trade Center, OK? It wasn't Iraq. It was other people.
Donald Trump
#45. But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.
Knute Nelson
#46. In cooking - as in business and war - hope for the best but plan for the worst.
Timothy Ferriss
#47. Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
Jean Paul
#48. The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.
Linda Chavez
#49. Child: "The Major and the soldiers and Mycroft told me what war is like. They say it's the second worst thing in the world."
Man: "That's an interesting definition. What did they say is the worst thing?"
Child: "Not having anything worth fighting for in the first place.
Ada Palmer
#50. The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ...
Fannie Hurst
#51. Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.
Giorgio Napolitano
#54. War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#55. You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.
Asif Ali Zardari
#56. I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
William Manchester
#57. The worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.
Ayn Rand
#58. I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'
George Lansbury
#59. The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
Ellen Glasgow
#60. For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and so forth, and yet the reality is, during this period, although there were these awful conflicts, the overall number of wars had gone down.
Andrew Mack
#61. Though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
Ellen Glasgow
#62. Everything, everything in war is barbaric ... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Ellen Key
#63. Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.
Bill Maher
#64. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#65. During the last few hours of the trip, he and Tess had drilled procedures and done a whole lot of worst-case-scenario type war-gaming. He was now as convinced as he'd ever be that she knew what to do and where to go if Godzilla attacked Kazabek ...
Suzanne Brockmann
#66. I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.
Robert Greene
#67. I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners.
Edmund Ironside
#68. That's the worst of a war
you have to go on hearing about it so long.
Susan Glaspell
#69. The law of war is harsh. If there's anything good at all in a war, it's that it brings the best and the worst out of people: some people try to use the lawlessness to hurt others, and some try to reduce the suffering to minimum.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#70. We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers
Robert E.Lee
#71. It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.
Zlata Filipovic
#72. War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.
Mark McKinnon
#73. The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.
Travis Luedke
#74. Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
John Boyd Orr
#75. Mr. Nadjafi collected my footage and edited it in ways that cast American troops and American policy in the worst possible light. He rewrote my scripts so that any mention of the war would be described as "the American-led invasion" or "the American-led occupation." The Koran was "the Holy Koran.
Amanda Lindhout
#76. Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people "for what you guys did over there." Thanks for what, I wanted to ask - shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on people's homes?
Nathaniel Fick
#77. Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
Elie Wiesel
#78. but after WWII, politics began to impede American war fighting to the extent that victory is fleeting at best and unlikely at worst.
Billy Vaughn
#79. A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
Criss Jami
#80. War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
Richard Engel
#81. All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
Janet Morris
#82. As I remember, the worst result of a World War II block was a flood of Argentine Gin. Sensitive martini-boys and Gibson-girls still shudder ...
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#83. Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.
Kristina McMorris
