706 War Quotes to share with friends and relatives

A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. – William Hooke

For though war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. – McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), “They Say in the Colleges,” in Zero Hour: A Su

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Havelock Ellis

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. – FranÃ§ois FÃ©nelon

Will… the threat of common extermination continue?… Must children receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance? – Pope John Paul II, speech at the UN, 1979

War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. – Robert Hall

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. – Stuart Chase

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? – Holly Near

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service. – Albert Einstein

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. – Louis Simpson

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. – George Patton

Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. – James Frederick Green

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? – Thomas Jefferson

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. – Charles Evans Hughes

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. – William Cowper

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all. – Lt. Clair J. Clark, letter to wife, March 1944

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. – Hermann Hagedorn, “The Bomb That Fell on America”

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. – Harry Emerson Fosdick