Quotes on Horror Of War

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

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

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

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 are not clothed.

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?

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.