Quotes about war

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual.

Andrew Carnegie

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

John F. Kennedy

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

Carl Sagan

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Steven Spielberg

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Abraham Lincoln

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

George S. Patton

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Audrey Hepburn

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems in order to achieve the goal.

Che Guevara

All progress means war with society.

George Bernard Shaw

A tyrant… is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato