“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Quotes about war
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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”
“War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.”
“When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.”
“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”
“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.”
“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”
“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
“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.”
“How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.”
“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”
“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”
“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”
“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”
“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”