Quotations about War

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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here...This is the War Room!" Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance." Joseph Stalin

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"A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader." Golda Meir

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"We have met the enemy, and not only is he ours, he is us." Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo

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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction was wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty?" Gandhi, 1948

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"War is hell." William Tecumseh Sherman

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"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." (Whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.) Vegetius, 4th century AD

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"Man's greatest happiness is to crush and kill his enemy, steal his possessions, rape his women and use their weeping bodies as his bedclothes, all the while kissing their rosy breasts and lips." Genghis Khan, attrib

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"In war there is no prize for the runner-up." General Omar Bradley

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"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee

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"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won." Duke of Wellington

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"Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting." Ambrose Bierce

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"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" Joseph Stalin

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"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." Ronald Reagan

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"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack." Marshal Ferdinand Foch

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"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950

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"Cogito ergo boom." Susan Sontag

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"Either war is obsolete, or men are." R. Buckminster Fuller, 1966

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General to the other officers: "On the other hand, gentlemen, what if we gave a war and EVERYBODY came?" Gary Larson, the Far Side

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"But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason." Ernest Hemingway

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"Death in battle is the most glorious for men. He who lives under the rule of his foe: it is he that is dead." Panchatranta, Sanskrit, c. 5th century BC

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"War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men." Georges Clemenceau

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"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." Adolf Hitler

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"Everything that steel achieves in war can be won in politics by eloquence." Demetrius, c. 300 BC

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"I love war and responsibility and excitement. Peace is going to be hell on me." General George S. Patton

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"War is a continuation of diplomacy using other means." Carl von Clausewitz, Über den Krieg

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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." Bertrand Russell

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"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil." - George Orwell

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"After the great destruction / Everyone will prove that he was innocent." Günter Eich, 1955

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"Battle, n. A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue." Ambrose Bierce

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"God is on the side of the biggest battalions." Napoleon

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"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet." Damon Runyon

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"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country." Elayne Boosler

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"One of the essential experiences of war is never being able to escape from disgusting smells of human origin." George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War," 1943

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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." General Douglas MacArthur

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"Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third." Ambrose Bierce

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"Quantity has a quality all its own." Joseph Stalin

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"To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late." Martial, Epigrams, 86 AD

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"Peace is a continuation of war using other means." General Vo Nguyen Giap, NVA

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"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands." H.L. Mencken

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"Ah, God, how pretty war is, with its songs, its long rests!" Guillaume Apollinaire

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"War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth." Ernie Pyle

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"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." Joseph Stalin

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"The common man is the greatest protection against war." Ernest Bevin, 1945

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"Sometime they will give a war and nobody will come." Carl Sandburg, 1936