Quotes about War
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
— Pablo Picasso
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
— Julian Casablancas
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
— John Piper
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
— Harry S. Truman
God is always at war with sin.
— G Campbell Morgan
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
— Ulysses S. Grant
For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.
— Origen
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
— Wendell Berry
We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
— CS Lewis