Quotes On War

War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the
lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.- P.B. Shelley

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.- Attributed To Lord Fishe

What millions died – That Caesar might be great !- Campbell

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain, but, that
he is slain, spoiled, crushed by the cruelty, the injustice,
the treachery, the murderous hand of man.- William Ellery Channing

War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble.- Dryden

There is no such thing as an inevitable war.
If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.- Bonar Law

Force and frand are in war the two cardinal virtues.- Thomas Hobbes

War crushes, with bloody heel, all justice, all happiness,
all that is God- like in man.- Charles Sumner

By war’s great sacrifices, the world reduces itself.- John Davidson

War must be for the sake of peace.- Aristotle.

The laws are silent in time of war.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.- M.T. Cicero

In peace the sons bury their fathers, and in war the
fathers bury their sons.- Francis Bacon

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.- S.J. Lec

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop
one.- Sallust

War is a horrible thing and constantly more terrible, and
dreadful so, that unless it is ended, it will certainly end
human society.- Herbert George Wells

You can’t say that civilizations don’t advance, for in
every war they kill you a new way.- Will Rogers

The first causality when war comes is truth.- Hiram Johnson

It is only necessary to make war with five things – with
the maladies of the body, the ignorance of the mind,
with the passions of the body, with the sedition of the
city and the disorder of families.- Pythagoras