951 private quotes tagged war

“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.” — Herbert V. Prochnow

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“A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“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.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” — Euripides

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

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“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” — Salvador Dali

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“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.” — Fidel Castro

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“Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.” — Thor Heyerdahl

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“Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'” — Immanuel Kant

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“The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.” — Marjane Satrapi

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“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover

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“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“War is a defeat for humanity.” — Pope John Paul II

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“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.” — Robert E. Lee

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“I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.” — Barry Goldwater

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“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” — Otto von Bismarck

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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” — Francois Fenelon

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“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” — Carly Simon

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“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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“It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.” — Robert E. Lee

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