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War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base. By C.e.m. Joad War Nature Outlet Evil Element

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived. By Jacque Fresco War Differences Represents Supreme Failure

War is life war is the origin of all things. By Adolf Hitler War Things Life Origin

War means fighting, and fighting means killing. By Nathan Bedford Forrest War Killing Fighting

War provides some people with a sense of purposefulness. The drumbeat of war quickens the pulse of neighbors, relatives, tribes, and nations. Hostile nations amass weapons of destruction claiming that they seek peace through deterrence. When war comes, advocates of arms galvanize the citizenry by proclaiming the inevitability of conflict. Each side's propaganda machine cast the campaign of present war as the next Great War. Generals brashly promote armed conflict as the war to end all other wars. Saber-rattlers proclaim that the opposition's militant disciples instituted this ordeal of conquest and destruction. By Kilroy J. Oldster War Purposefulness People Sense Nations

Capitalism needs war. By Paul Murray Capitalism War

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. By Wilhelm Von Humboldt War Nature Scene Salutary Phenomena

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is. By Tim O'brien Existence War Human Fundamental Aspect

We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage. By Phil Klay Thing Experience Perspectives Contrast Judgments

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace! By Pope Francis Kills Impoverishes Lord War Destroys

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate By Marvin Gaye War Answer Hate Love Conquer

Most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War. By Randall Jarrell War Forever Fight Die People

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. By Sun Tzu War State Death Ruin Matter

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice. By Alexander Hamilton War Things Diligence Perserverance Time

War is in the eyes. By David Douglas Duncan War Eyes

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence. By William Ellery Channing War World Consideration End Ranked

Finally, we come to the real thing, the thing that makes men men, the thing were born for, Todd. War. By Patrick Ness Todd Thing Finally Men Real

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life. By Gregory David Roberts Man Place War Fight Side

What fools men are, and what an evil thing is war. By Wally Lamb War Fools Men Evil Thing

You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them. By R. Scott Bakker War Bones God Dark Black

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free. By Heraclitus War Father King Gods Men

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil. By Dwight D. Eisenhower Business War Grim Cruel Evil

When I think of war, I see blood. Pain and suffering. Nothing good comes from war.But there is good. There will be an outcome. One side will find peace, solace. While the other will end in bitter loss.There are two sides to the coin of war. By Hafsah Faizal Blood War Good Pain Suffering

Peace is obtained by war. By Cornelius Nepos Peace War Obtained

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war. By Charles Eisenstein Side War Controversy Revel Defeat

war, the human antithesis of art By Campbell Mcgrath War Art Human Antithesis

War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy. By Walter Millis War Society Economy Systems Plant

War serves only the warlords and the graveyards! By Mehmet Murat Ildan War Graveyards Serves Warlords

War is the father and king of all, By Heraclitus War Father King

War is not nice. By Barbara Bush War Nice

If you want peace, prepare for the war. By Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Peace Prepare War

War is a monster ... War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows ... And otherwise normal people become monsters, too. By Patrick Ness War Grows Monster Monsters Devil

Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war ... If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door. By Vivien Leigh War Spring Scream Talk Spoiling

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. By Winston S. Churchill Smile War Grin Game Played

War is the enemy of civilization. We cannot grow through war, Xander. It drags us down, filling our hearts with hatred and thoughts of revenge. By David Gemmell Xander Civilization War Enemy Filling

War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion. By Moncure D. Conway War Locks Eyes Claws Passing

For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the cost in money, in lives, and in suffering was always significant. Only in the past century have large numbers of people begun to question the basic assumption of civilized societies that war is inevitable and often useful. By Gwynne Dyer History Institution Providing Money Lives

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. By Percy Bysshe Shelley War Game Delight Jest Trade

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. By Percival Lowell War Nation Survival Savage Times

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health. By Dan Simmons Health War Fever Knowing Condition

What is more immoral than war? By Marquis De Sade War Immoral

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. By Heraclitus War Gods Men Free Father

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars. By Bruce Schneier Term Apply War Wars Sort

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind. By Storm Jameson Europe War Generations Leap Disease

For what can war, but endless war, still breed? By John Milton War Breed Endless

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it. By Gerald Scarfe War Feel Guess Hope

The only war is the war against the imagination. By Diane Di Prima Imagination War

Everyone hates war, everyone says. By Andy Rooney War Hates

Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces. By The Arbinger Institute Cold Hot Variety Lingering Resentment

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm. By Victor Davis Hanson War Storm Rust Suddenly Pops

I'm against all war. By Sean Combs War

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. By Robert E.lee World God War Friends Neighbors

How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable? By Margaret Caroline Anderson War Interested Human Eyes Wellchosen

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war. By Paullina Simons Chaos Pounding Souldestroying Snarl Ending

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! By Leo Tolstoy Terrible Thing War

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages. By Elie Ducommun War Told Shapes Character Politics

War is wonderful. They'll never stamp it out. It's one of the few times people can act their best. It's so economical in terms of gesture and motion, every single gesture is precise, every effort is at its maximum. Nobody goofs off. Everybody is responsible for his brother. By Leonard Cohen War Wonderful Gesture Stamp Motion

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity. By Saint Augustine Cruelty War Violence Enmity Waged

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits. By Carl Von Clausewitz War Limits Act Violence Pushed

Another war is always coming, Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions, and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation-state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be. War, Robert, is one of humanity's two eternal companions." So, I asked, what was the other? "Diamonds. By David Mitchell Robert Violence Coming War Power

War and the threat of war stimulate speculation upon the conditions of peace. By Kenneth N. Waltz Peace War Threat Stimulate Speculation

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. By Carl Von Clausewitz War Suffering Domain Physical Exertion

What is war?' I asked.Oh, it's a messy, stupid business,' he said, 'Two sides wave flags and beat drums and shoot one another dead. It always begins this way, making speeches, talking about rights, and all that sort of thing.'But what is it for? What do they get out of it?'I don't know,' he said. 'To tell you the truth, I don't think they know themselves. By Hugh Lofting War Askedoh Messy Stupid Business

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events. By Carl Von Clausewitz War Chance Province Intruder Sphere

War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Low War Man Morality Humanity

War is death's feast. By George Herbert War Feast Death

War is the ultimate tool of politics. By R. Buckminster Fuller War Politics Ultimate Tool

War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation, and, as such, an dispensable factor in civilization. By Friedrich Von Bernhardi War Importance Biological Necessity Regulative

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. By Carl Von Clausewitz Political War Instrument Intercourse Act

If you wish for peace, understand war. By B.h. Liddell Hart Peace Understand War

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace. By M. E. W. Sherwood Foolish War Uneconomical Poor Arrangement

War is not a thing one wants. By Hans Frank War Thing

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature. By Richard Engel War Societies Human Horrible Things

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? By Allen Ginsberg Gave War

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization By Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker War Damnable Filthy Civilization Thing

What is peace without war? By K. Weikel War Peace

War has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures. By Barbara Ehrenreich War Systems Millions Dug Economic

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. By Alfred Adler War Brothers Organized Murder Torture

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another. By Edmund Burke War History View Shape Intent

You want war??...Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If you disire for more... it sounds like you are cruel, so far I can understand it you are the bad guy, aren't you? By Deyth Banger War Books Films Find Brutal

What use was war without also love? By Saul Bellow Love War

Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I love war.I like genocide. I like blitzkrieg.I like aggressive war. I like defensive war.I like sieges. I like breaking through.I like withdrawing. I like cleaning up.I like retreating.In moors. On highways. In trenches.In plains. On tundra. In desert.On sea. In sky. In mud.In marshes.I love every aspect of war that takes place on Earth. By Kohta Hirano Gentlemen War Wari Love Genocide

Sometimes, war can make a change.Sometimes, change can ignite a war. By Toba Beta Changesometimes Change War Make Ignite

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again. By Edwin Starr War Good Absolutely

When diplomacy ends, War begins. By Adolf Hitler War Ends Begins Diplomacy

No war. Fight with your pen. Give your battle-cry in ink, and mark your dreams down on a page By Susan Fletcher War Fight Pen Give Ink

We make war that we may live in peace. By Aristotle. Peace Make War Live

The war never leaves By Victoria Aveyard Leaves War

Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forces of evil were so unambiguous and so relentless that there was no choice but to commit to total war and to demand unconditional surrender. Seldom, though, is it quite that clear cut. By David Horsey War World Surrender Vision Influenced

A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums. By Larry Gelbart York Doorways Rains Crowds War

We all fight wars - in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in. By Steven Pressfield Wars Work World Fight Families

War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause. By M.f. Moonzajer War Approach Evil Kind Human

If you want peace, understand war. By B.h. Liddell Hart Peace Understand War

I don't know how it got to this, but I'm in a war. There's no chance for diplomacy. They want me dead and I don't think I can run from this. Not after what they've done to me. So if this is a war, then I'm going to take the fight to them. I'll raid their lair and I'll kill as many as I can. There seem to be endless numbers of them, but they've got to have a limit. Tonight we'll find out if there are more of them than there is fight in me. By Dennis Liggio War Fight Diplomacy Chance Dead

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. By Carl Von Clausewitz War Phenomenon Independent Continuation Politics

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war. By Bernard Kouchner Worst War Prepare

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. By Smedley Butler Racket War People Majority Masses

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure By Aristotle. Leisure Peace Business Goal War

War what is it good for? It's good for business. By Billy Bragg Good War Business

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb. By Chris Hedges Love War Beginning Feels Greater