Quotes about war

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill

Don’t flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

Sun Tzu

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

John F. Kennedy

…there is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It’s very hard in the military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Cicero

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

John Ruskin

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.

John Lennon

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

John F. Kennedy

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery