Quotes About War

Finding quotes about war that are inspirational is often hard because we would rather not find them. War isn't what any sane person wants unless thrust upon them. To avoid war means more to those who fight than those who plan.

" Till the war-drum throbb`d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl`d; In the parliament of man; the Federation of the world."
Alfred Tennyson

"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."
Annie Dillard

"In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers."
August Bebel

"Now these questions are not new. War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease -- the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences."
Barack Obama

"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace."
Charles Sumner

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
Albert Einstein

"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."
James Morrow



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More inspirational quotes about war:
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."
Omar Bradley

"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."
Robert E. Lee

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg