War Quotes

  • War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
    ~ Napoleon Hill
  • Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.
    ~ Robert Brault
  • No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
    ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • Only the dead have seen the end of war.
    ~ Plato
  • Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
    ~ Francis Meehan
  • In war, truth is the first casualty.
    ~ Aeschylus
  • All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace.When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
    ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
    ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester.It is not only the living who are killed in war.
    ~ Isaac Asimov
  • If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how.
    ~ Joan Baez
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