War Quotes on Conflict & Humanity – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Douglas Hurd

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Richard Le Gallienne

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

William Tecumseh Sherman

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Manfred von Richthofen

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Francois Rabelais

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

Tacitus

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Laurence J. Peter

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

Thomas Hobbes

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Hans Kung

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

William Tecumseh Sherman

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

Zebulon Pike

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Alfred Adler

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

Amar Bose

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Leon Uris

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

John Le Carre

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Fredrik Bajer

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

Havelock Ellis

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Bruce Jackson

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

John Boehner

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

C. L. R. James

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

Jim Cooper

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Margaret Thatcher

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Jorge Luis Borges

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

Pierre Salinger

Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems.

Gil Kane

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Gerry Adams

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Alfred Adler

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

Marc Garneau

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Condoleezza Rice

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.

Robert Capa

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Jan Schakowsky

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Noam Chomsky

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Joshua Chamberlain

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

Walid Jumblatt

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Karl Von Clausewitz

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

Doc Hastings