951 private quotes tagged war

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” — Bertrand Russell

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“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.” — Winston Churchill

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“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.” — George Orwell

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“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.” — Winston Churchill

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“We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.” — Harry S. Truman

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“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.” — Winston Churchill

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“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.” — Anatole France

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“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.” — H. G. Wells

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“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.” — James Madison

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“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.” — Heraclitus

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“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.” — Conrad Black

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“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.” — John Foster Dulles

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“The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.” — Arthur Henderson

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“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.” — Nancy Pelosi

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“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.” — Tony Benn

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“Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.” — Jeff Goodell

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“War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.” — Jane Goodall

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“Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.” — Haruki Murakami

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“War remains the decisive human failure.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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