War Quotes

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

What is more immoral than war?

War remains the decisive human failure.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

In time of war the laws are silent.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

The real war will never get in the books.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.