W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“War! We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there’s no one left to fight.”
Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“War!
What is it good for?
It's good for business.
- North Sea Bubble”
Source: A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics
“War what is it good for? It's good for business.”
“War—whether waged with weapons or tariffs—brings only loss. Civilization thrives on cooperation, not conflict.”
“War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.”
Source: The Lowland
“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”
“War will exist as long as there's a food chain.”
Source: Holidays in Hell
“War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”
“War will find us whether we are ready or not.”
“War will make corpses of us all.”
“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”
“War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.”
Source: Lecture on War
“War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.”
Source: The Annals & The Histories
“War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
“War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
“War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.”
Source: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
“War with vices, but peace with individuals.”
“War would end if the dead could return.”
“War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment;
We, we alone, Nereids inviolate,
Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant:
Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.”
“War! war! war!
Heaven aid the right!
God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!
God send the women sleep in the long, long night,
When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman
“War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?”
“War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.”
“War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.”
“War's balance will prevail.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.”
“War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.”
“War's extremely serious and it saddens me.”
“War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.”
“War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to rule the people for the Government instead of for the purpose of serving the people. When will the people see that the very taxes they pay are building a power to be used against them?”
“War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.”
“War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.”
“War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.”
Source: Moyers on Democracy
“War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.”
Source: Company parade
“War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?”
Source: Reprisal
“War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.”
“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.”
“War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.”
“War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.”
“War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.”
Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812
“War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.”
“War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.”
“War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.”
“War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.”
Source: The federalist papers
“WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)
“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”
Source: Mahan on Naval Warfare
“War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.”