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WAR QUOTES

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -Desiderius Erasmus

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. -John F. Kennedy

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. -Herbert Hoover

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied. -Rudyard Kipling

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. -Karl Kraus

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. -Douglas MacArthur

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. -H. L. Mencken

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. -Florence Nightingale

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. -Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came? -Leslie Parrish-Bach

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. -Charles Sumner

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. -Bertrand Russell

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead -Anonymous

Join the Army! Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them. -Anonymous

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. -Abraham Flexner

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. - Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War.

There was never a good war or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. -George McGovern

Everyone wants to change humanity, but nobody wants to change himself. - Tolstoy

"Man's destiny lies between what is inside of him and the stars he was born under." - Persian saying

War is fear cloaked in courage. -William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. -William Westmoreland

"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself." -William Shakespeare (Henry VIII)

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. -André Gide

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. -Ernest Hemingway

"If the best things in life were once free, now they are endangered." - Vdas

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. -Jean-Paul Sartre

"We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few but we cannot have both." - Louis Brandels

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. - 1967 -Gerome Gragni

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. -Havelock Ellis

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. -Franois Fnelon

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. - Alice Thomas Ellis

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? -Holly Near

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. -Abbie Hoffman

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. -Issac Asimov

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. -Albert Einstein

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere? -Emperor Hirohito

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? -Gandhi

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. -Albert Einstein