Quotes about war

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Albert Schweitzer

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Oscar Wilde

The effective combination of the whole English-speaking world in the waging of war and the creation of the Grand Alliance form the conclusion to this part of my account.

Winston Churchill

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.

Tupac Shakur

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Harry S. Truman

Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.

Ronald Reagan

Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect.

Albert Einstein

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Niccolo Machiavelli