War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. —Mao Tse-Tung More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. —John Stuart Mill More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. —Jeannette Rankin More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. —Georges Clemenceau More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. —Georges Clemenceau More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is not nice. —Carl Sandburg More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. —Barbara Bush More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: war Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. —Thomas Elliot More about this quote Tags: violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. —Robert J. Sawyer More about this quote Tags: violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email