W Quotes
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“War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist”
Source: The Art of Eating
“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 indispensable factor in civilization.”
“War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”
“War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.”
“War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.”
Source: The Caine mutiny: a novel of World War II.
“War is a cauldron that softens bureaucracy and expedites the formation of formidable reputations.”
“War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.”
Source: On War
“War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
“War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.”
Source: In Times Like These
“War is a crime dressed as politics”
Source: Songs of Revolution: Poems against oppression
“War is a crime of mass murder; deciding on war is a crime; the war industry is a crime; participating in war is a crime; working in the war industry is a crime; warmongering is a crime; everything related to war is a great crime!”
“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.”
“War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.”
Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…
“War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization”
“War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.”
Source: The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development
“War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?”
Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
“War is a defeat for humanity.”
“War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.”
Source: Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In
“war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.”
“War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.”
“War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“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.”
“War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.”
Source: La douleur
“War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!”
“War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.”
“War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.”
“War is a horribly fascinating thing.”
Source: On to Westward: War in the Central Pacific
“War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.”
Source: The Major Works
“War is a lethal distraction." - On War”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“War is a lie”
Source: Camille 1944: If you are a bird, do not forget how to fly
“War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.”
“War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them.”
Source: War
“War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)”
“War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.”
“war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.”
“War is a masculine merchandise.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“War is a masculine merchandise, whereas preserving life is an act of the feminine.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
Source: History of the Peloponnesian War
“War is a matter of vital importance to the state.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules
“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.”
“War is a media propaganda machine that will always sell false hopes & images at the beset of truth and honesty.”
“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.”
“War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.”
“War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.”
“War is a perversion of sex.”
“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”
“War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.”
Source: Addresses on War
“War is a profane thing.”
“War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.”