War Quotes

  • They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
    ~ Ernest Hemingway
  • The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.
    ~ Martin H. Fischer
  • We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.
    ~ Henry Miller
  • You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
    ~ Albert Einstein
  • The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
    ~ Albert Einstein
  • When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
    ~ Jean Paul Sartre
  • I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
    ~ George Stanley McGovern
  • Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
    ~ Bertrand Russell
  • If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.
    ~ Yoko Ono
  • We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
    ~ Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick
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