Quotes about War
I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.
— Helen Keller
It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
— James Madison
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
— JRR Tolkien
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
— Wendell Berry
You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.
— John Eldredge
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
— Winston Churchill
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
— Ernest Hemingway
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
— Cicero
Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
— Albert Einstein
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
— Charles Dickens
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
— George Bernard Shaw
But as long as evil persists in the world— and it will until Jesus returns— there will be wars.
— Susan May Warren