Famous Quotes on War

Either war is obsolete or men are. — R. Buckminster Fuller

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. — Issac Asimov

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. — Albert Einstein

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. — Ernest Hemmingway

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. — Albert Einstein

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. — Ernest Hemingway

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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 the holy name of liberty and democracy? — Gandhi

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. — General Douglas MacArthur

You know the real meaning of PEACE only if you have been through the war. — Kosovar

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Neither side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under the earth, but to walk upon it - without crutches. — Peter Weiss

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — General Smedley Butler

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. — John T. Flynn

After every 'victory' you have more enemies. — Jeanette Winterson

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive. — Robin Cook

[Iraqis] know we own their country ... It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need. — U.S. Brig. General William Looney

When the largest industry in the world is no longer War, I will accept Darwin's theory of Evolution. — Dale S. Mugford

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or says it. Malcolm X

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. —Salvador de Madariaga

“It is well that war is so terrible—we should grow too fond of it.” — Robert E. Lee

“The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives.” — Sir Winston Churchill

“No bastard ever won a war dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” — General George Patton

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. — Herman Goering

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