Quotes on Evils Of War

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.