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QUOTES including the word: " war"

Fidel Castro:
  • I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

    • Caesar:
  • Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

    • Heinrich Bell:
  • If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

    • Edna Milley:
  • “My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

    • Great the Alexander:
  • Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.

    • George Orwell:
  • Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

    • Jacques Prevert:
  • An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

    • Henri Bergson:
  • Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we' ll have war.

    • Durant Will:
  • There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

    • Alfred Adler:
  • To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

    • Sartre:
  • When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

    • Strindberg:
  • Love between a man and a woman is a war.

    • Hobbes:
  • When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”

    • Galeano:
  • Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

    • Wollstonecraft:
  • And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring.

    • Brecht:
  • Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

    • Washington:
  • To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

    • Plutarch:
  • “The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (said in 1888).

    • Spinoza:
  • Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

    • Montesquieu:
  • An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

    • Maupassant:
  • Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

    • Brendan Behan:
  • “I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

    • Raymond Queneau:
  • There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

    • Aristophanes:
  • Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

    • Ibsen:
  • To live is to war with trolls.”

    • John Milton:
  • Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

    • Washington:
  • My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

    • Leon Trotsky:
  • There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

    • Einstein:
  • I don't know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

    • Maupassant:
  • Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

    • Lenin:
  • No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!

    • Ramos Sucre:
  • Women are war booty.

    • Kierkegaard:
  • A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke

    • Bismarck von Otto:
  • Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

    • Aeschylus:
  • In war, truth is the first casualty

    • George Orwell:
  • 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.

    • Franz Kafka:
  • Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

    • Rolland:
  • I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

    • Carl Jung:
  • One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

    • Schopenhauer:
  • The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

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