“War does not determine who is right—only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
“In war, truth is the first casualty.” – Aeschylus
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu
“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” – Herbert Hoover
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – Plato
“War is what happens when language fails.” – Margaret Atwood
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” – George Washington
“An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” – George S. Patton
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” – Leon Trotsky
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” – Thomas Mann
“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
“It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” – Robert E. Lee
“War makes good history but bad history teachers.” – Unknown
“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.” – Napoleon Hill
“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” – Herodotus
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles.” – George S. Patton
“History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” – Ronald Reagan
“A soldier’s job isn’t to die for his country, but to make the other soldier die for his.” – Unknown
“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” – Salvador Dalí
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – José Narosky
“When diplomacy ends, war begins.” – Adolf Hitler
“War remains the decisive human failure.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” – Douglas MacArthur
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.” – John Steinbeck
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.” – Malcolm X
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” – William Tecumseh Sherman
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” – John F. Kennedy
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.” – Carl von Clausewitz
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.” – Winston Churchill
“War has no eyes.” – Afghan Proverb
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” – John F. Kennedy
“Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.” – Thucydides
“War is over … if you want it.” – John Lennon
“A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.” – William Ralph Inge
“The outcome of war is in our hands; the outcome of peace is in our hearts.” – Unknown
“The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.” – Omar Bradley
“Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.” – Unknown
“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.” – Thomas Jefferson
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” – Thomas Mann