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Quotes on War

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Author: Sun Tzu

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
Author: John F. Kennedy

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
Author: Charles Baudelaire

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Author: David Friedman

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
- 1967
Author: Gerome Gragni

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Author: Hiram Johnson

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
Author: William Jennings Bryan

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
Author: William Westmoreland

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.
Author: Albert Einstein

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Author: George Orwell

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.
Author: Dick Motta

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
Author: George Herbert

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Author: John F. Kennedy

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
Author: H. L. Mencken

War would end if the dead could return.
Author: Stanley Baldwin

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
Author: Karl Kraus

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Author: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
Author: Harriet Tubman

 

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