Quotes About War

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." ― George Orwell

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." ― G.K. Chesterton

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die." ― Herbert Hoover

"There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for." ― Albert Dietrich

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." ― Plato

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak." ― Sun Tzu

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." ― Ernest Hemingway

"Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars." ― Haruki Murakami

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

"War does not determine who is right — only who is left." ― Anonymous

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." ― Howard Zinn

"War is over ... If you want it." ― John Lennon

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once." ― Robert A. Heinlein

"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die." ― Jean-Paul Sartre

"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war." ― Leo Tolstoy

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."- Desiderius Erasmus

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."- Horatio Nelson

"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."- Albert Einstein

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."- George McGovern

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime."- Harry Elmer Barnes

"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." – Donald Trump

"War is what happens when language fails." – Margaret Atwood

"It is forbidden to kill, therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." – Voltaire

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." – Thomas Mann





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