Quotes about War
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
- Victor Hugo
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
- Joseph Heller
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
- Alexander Hamilton
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
- Ernest Hemingway
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
- GK Chesterton
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
- Mark Twain
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
- George Washington
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
- William McKinley
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
- Thomas Merton
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter