Quotes on Good War

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.