Top 1000 War Quotes & Sayings

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Nothing can justify war.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.

The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

In every war, innocent people die.

Ukraine told me I couldn't return. They put me on a list of terrorists and war criminals.

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

All oppression creates a state of war.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.