War Quotes on Conflict & Humanity – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Brit Hume

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

George Bernard Shaw

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

Zebulon Pike

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Lionel Blue

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

John F. Kennedy

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

Mike Pence

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Charles de Secondat

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

Geraldine Ferraro

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Heinrich Heine

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

James A. Garfield

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

George Washington

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Phyllis Schlafly

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Calvin Coolidge

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Jose Saramago

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Sarah Palin

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

Keith Miller

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Henry A. Kissinger

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

William Butler Yeats

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

Moshe Sharett