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War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

War to me is very much like sex. You can develop a theory that says sex is primarily for the exchange of genetic material, or that it's a celebration of life, or you can make up 50,000 theories about why human beings have sex, all of which are in some sense true, all of which by themselves miss the point. Because the answer is extraordinarily complex. It may be for fun, it may be for reproduction, for financial reasons, any number of things.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.

WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have insisted on having a say in the matter. The president, they declared, could not, or at least should not, take the country back to war without the input of the nation's elected representatives.

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly not a phenomenon particular to the modern world-system. On the other hand, once again the technological achievements of capitalist civilization serve as much ill as good. One bomb in Hiroshima killed more people than whole wars in pre-modern times. Alexander the Great in his whole sweep of the Middle East could not compare in destructiveness to the impact of the Gulf War on Iraq and Kuwait.

Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

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.

War should neither be feared nor provoked.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

War, the World's Only Hygiene

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.