War

War is, of course, madness. For both victor and vanquished, war leaves only a sense of endless futility. Soldiers die, cities destroyed, razed to the ground, and citizens starve. War dehumanizes, it diminishes and it is a crime against humanity. What are leaders thinking when they decide to go to war? How could they want to go to war so readily? In this present day, I thought people would be more civilized and have more sense. I thought they would want to avoid war at all costs. When leaders wage war, it is the people who suffer.

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. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. - Howard Zinn

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance. - Winston Churchill

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. - Karl Kraus

All war is symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. - John Steinbeck

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

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. - Ernest Hemingway

What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbours. - Robert E. Lee

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I do know that World War IV will be fought with rocks. - Albert Einstein

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy

It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world. - Frederic Clemson Howe

I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis. Millions of people gather at one place and, giving their actions order and regularity, kill each other, and it hurts everybody equally, and all are unhappy – what is it if not madness? - Leonid Andreyev

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