War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. – Hannah Arendt
Accurst be he that first invented war. – Christopher Marlowe
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. – Miguel de Cervantes
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. – Miguel de Cervantes
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. – Ernie Pyle
War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it. – John Podhoretz
War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. – Smedley Butler
My father was in the First World War. – Doris Lessing
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. – Doris Lessing
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts. – Mao Zedong
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound
And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. – Dick Gregory
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself. – Henry A. Wallace
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. – George McGovern
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. – George McGovern
Accursed be he that first invented war. – Christopher Marlowe
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. – Charles de Montesquieu
