War Quotes

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Alan Alda: “When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.”

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Thor Heyerdahl: “I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any. ”

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Omar N. Bradley: “As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.”

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Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.”

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Douglas MacArthur: “I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.”

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Joseph Heller: “I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.”

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William Ellery Channing: “The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”

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Sophocles: “War loves to seek its victims in the young.”

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Deborah Tannen: “It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.' There is something wrong with that press. ”

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Thor Heyerdahl: “Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. ”

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Richard Aldington: “We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may. Which of us were fortunate -- who can tell? For you there is silence and cold twilight drooping in awful desolation over those motionless lands. For us sunlight and the sound of women's voices, song and hope and laughter, despair, gaiety, love -- life. Lost terrible silent comrades, we, who might have died, salute you.”

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.”

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Leo Tolstoy: “War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”

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Mark Kurlansky: “For every Crusade and Revolution and Civil War, there have always been those who argued, with great clarity, that violence not only was immoral but that it was even a less effective means of achieving laudable goals.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war. ”

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Albert Camus: “When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid, it can't last long.' But though a war may be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting.”

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Albert Einstein: “I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”

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Aldous Huxley: “What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”

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Aeschylus: “In war, truth is the first casualty.”

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Howard Zinn: “I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -- that history is a protective armor against being misled.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

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Barack Obama: “Now these questions are not new. War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease -- the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences.”

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Otto von Bismarck: “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”

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Harrison Ford: “Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.”

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Winston Churchill: “Jaw jaw is better than war war.”

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Ken Burns: “I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.”