Quotes on War

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.

There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a war that not only continues to this moment without the slightest abatement but intensifies hourly.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this atomic waste the people of Nagasaki confront the world and cry out: No more war! Let us follow the commandment of love and work together. The people of Nagasaki prostrate themselves before God and pray: Grant that Nagasaki may be the last atomic wilderness in the history of the world.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.