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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
Albert Einstein in WAR
Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the s
Dwight D. Eisenhower in WAR
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower in WAR
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower in WAR
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower in WAR
O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
C. D. Andrews in WAR
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple f
Hannah Arendt in WAR
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no
Walter Bagehot in WAR
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
Charles Baudelaire in WAR
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.
Baudouin I in WAR
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.
Friedrich Von Bernhardi in WAR
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabi
Hans A. Bethe in WAR
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto Von Bismarck in WAR
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
Alexander Blok in WAR
The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
Marcus T. Cicero in WAR
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.
Karl Von Clausewitz in WAR
A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Alexander Cockburn in WAR
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments
Rebecca Harding Davis in WAR
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
John Dryden in WAR
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
T. S. Eliot in WAR
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are
James Fenton in WAR
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destr
Anne Frank in WAR
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered
Benjamin Franklin in WAR
Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to at
Martha Gellhorn in WAR
I feel sure that coups d'Ttat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt in WAR
War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease,
Sir Edmund Gosse in WAR
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations tha
Ernest Hemingway in WAR
War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it ma
E. J. Hobsbawm in WAR
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman in WAR
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt in WAR
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