Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. – George Orwell
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. – George Orwell
In war there is no prize for runner-up. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. – George Orwell
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. – Fidel Castro
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. – George Orwell
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
War settles nothing. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. – Leo Tolstoy
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. – Norman Schwarzkopf
The only defensible war is a war of defense. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. – Douglas MacArthur
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke
The real war will never get in the books. – Walt Whitman
What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. – Robert E. Lee
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. – Alexis de Tocqueville
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. – Douglas MacArthur
