Impacting and Thought – Provoking War Quotes

“Everything comes in circles. […] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Memorable, impacting and thought – provoking War Quotes quotes that remind us that history goes in circles.

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

 Ernest Hemingway

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

Leo Tolstoy

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

 Winston Churchill

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”

G. Wells

“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

“War is the science of destruction.”

John Abbott

“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”

John Stuart Mill

“War is a defeat for humanity.”

Pope John Paul II

“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”

Hiram Johnson

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”

Omar N. Bradley

“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”

Carl Sandburg

“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”

 Gilbert Parker

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

David Friedman

“War… is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”

Ludwig von Mises

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueller it is, the sooner it will be over.”

William Tecumseh Sherman

“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”

 Sun Tzu

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

 Ernest Hemingway

“War is fear cloaked in courage.”

William Westmoreland

“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”

Benjamin Franklin

See also: https://dimidesan.com/war-poetry-by-miguel-hernandez/