War Quotes on Conflict & Humanity – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

Francis Parker Yockey

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

Christian Lous Lange

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

Richard Perle

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

William Glasser

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Michael Scheuer

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

John Yoo

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Schumer

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Sun Tzu

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Douglas William Jerrold

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

John Doolittle

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Walter Bagehot

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Ernest Hemingway

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Elizabeth I

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

Hamid Karzai

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun Tzu

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

Golda Meir

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

Martin Lewis Perl

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

Paul Cellucci

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

Warren Christopher

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.

Oliver North

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Douglas MacArthur

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

Mitt Romney

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Walid Jumblatt

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

Jalal Talabani

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

Joseph Heller

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

Daniel Yergin

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Elias Canetti

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

John Fowles

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Robert Mueller