How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there.
I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.
We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners.
Only rice likes to be drowned. The war is the worst scream. (Seul aime être noyé le riz. - La guerre est le pire des cris.)
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.
We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.
A Good Leader Promotes Peace,Not War. A Good Leader Is For The People,Not For Himself. A Good Leader Does Not Watch His People Suffer.
No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
