W Quotes
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“War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.”
“War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.”
“War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.”
“War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.”
“War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate”
“War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.”
“War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.”
“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.”
“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.”
“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.”
“War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.”
“War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.”
“War is not to be waged in the name of God.”
“War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.”
“War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“War is not women's history.”
“War is not won by victory.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
“War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.”
Source: International Co-operation
“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
“War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.”
Source: On War
“War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.”
“War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.”
“War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.”
Source: An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism
“War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
“War is only a passing phase in business life...If you want my opinion there's nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality.”
“War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence
“War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.”
Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future
“War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.”
“War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that’s all there is in it.”
“War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.”
“War is our backyard, famine our feast. Most fear the wind of our wings and even, in their hurt, pray for life. Only a few, a very few, truly pray for death. But we answer all their prayers with the same coin.”
Source: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
“War is out of date, obsolete.”
“War is over ... If you want it.”
“War is part of human nature. Leave not your village undefended.”
“War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.”
“War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore
“War is politics by other means.”
“War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.”
“War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.”
“War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated. If the twenty-first-century nations do not tolerate the enslavement of the defeated, they certainly promiscuously warn about incinerating them with nuclear weapons.”
Source: The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
“War is progress, peace is stagnation.”
“War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.”
“War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.”
Source: On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles
“War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.”