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Quotations About War

Related: Violence

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Draft beer, not people.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Everything in life has an opposite. While one brings devastation; the other brings peace.