"War" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "War"

"I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it."

--- A. J. Liebling

#War #Limping #Two Days

"To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Thanks #War #Made

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."

--- A. J. Muste

#Peace #Anti War #Violence And War

"The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?"

--- A. J. Muste

#Thinking #Anti War #War

"We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life."

--- A. J. Muste

#Peace #War #Concerned

"War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life."

--- A. J. Muste

#War #Way #Peace Not War

"Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it."

--- A. J. Muste

#Peace #Mean #Wages

"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Peace #Reason #Anti War

"Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Fighting #Great War #War

"Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Fighting #War #Idealist

"The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Peace #Anti War #Security

"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Blunders #War #Shapes

"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#War Of The Worlds #First World War #War

"No war is inevitable until it breaks out."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Peace #Anti War #War

"The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Peace #War #Dice

"The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind."

--- A. M. Rosenthal

#War #Hussein #Kind

"This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Book #Wretchedness #Politician

"War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language."

--- A. O. Scott

#War Of The Worlds #War #Population

"Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!"

--- A. P. Herbert

#Heard #Money #Might

"Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible."

--- A. Philip Randolph

#Anti War #Money #War

"Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy"

--- A. Philip Randolph

#War #Democracy #Winning

"I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war."

--- A. S. Byatt

#War Of The Worlds #War #Second World War

"What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough."

--- A. Y. Jackson

#Technique #War #Forever

"If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Heretic #Sin #War

"Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy."

--- A.J. Cronin

#Enemy #War #Remains

"My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war."

--- A.M. Homes

#Blow Job #War #Complexes

"Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me."

--- Aaron Allston

#War #Lethargy #Ennui

"I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world."

--- Aaron Eckhart

#Reality #War #Things Happen

"War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name."

--- Aaron Huey

#War #Staring #Faces

"War is the greatest failure of mankind."

--- Aaron Huey

#War #Mankind

30 "War" Quotes