War Quotes

Only the dead have seen the end of war. (Plato)
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. View quote
Herodotus
It is only necessary to make war with five things with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families. View quote
Pythagoras
We must end war before war ends us. View quote
H. G. Wells
I don't know what weapons will be used in world war three, but in world war four people will use sticks and stones. View quote
Albert Einstein
In war, truth is the first casualty. View quote
Aeschylus
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. View quote
Sun Tzu
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it. View quote
George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. View quote
George Orwell
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. (Karl Kraus)
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
It is easier to make war than make peace. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Business is a combination of war and sport. View quote
André Maurois
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. View quote
George Orwell
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. View quote
Thomas Mann
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. View quote
Mao Zedong
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. (Winston Churchill)
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. View quote
Sun Tzu
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. View quote
William Hazlitt