War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. – Smedley Butler
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. – William Tecumseh Sherman
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. – Thucydides
In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash. – Douglas MacArthur
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. – Jefferson Davis
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. – Noam Chomsky
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war. – Chief Joseph
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. – Anatole France
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. – Julius Caesar
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. – Will Durant
War is a profane thing. – Norman Schwarzkopf
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. – William Tecumseh Sherman
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. – Lyndon B. Johnson
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. – James Madison
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. – Mao Zedong
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. – Susan B. Anthony
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. – Kurt Vonnegut
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. – Simone Weil
