Quotes on War

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

People don't start wars, governments do.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game.

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.