An essay on wars – destructive to humanity. Without argument, war is humanity’s worst collective experience. He created new nations on the rubble of destroyed cities and dead people. This includes mass murder without humane emotions, even if it is short and fast. It refers to an armed battle between nations. The war causes great suffering to the families of the people who died during the war. During wars, real estate, wealth, trade, industry, and so on. It will be severely destroyed. It completely upsets people’s social lives. Many argue that war is a necessary evil and the only process of resolving international disputes. In reality, however, war only happens because people are not ready to settle the dispute peacefully. Lets bring peace to the world with spreading the effects of war from these war quotes. Also understanding the importance and need of war with these war quotes.

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. — John F. Kennedy

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. — Sun Tzu

The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water. — Mao Tse-Tung

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. — John Randolph

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. — Myra McPherson

There are no atheists in the foxholes. — William Thomas Cummings

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Either war is obsolete, or men are. — Buckminster Fuller

If we don’t end war, war will end us. — H. G. Wells

Sweat saves blood. — Erwin Rommel

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. — Winston Churchill

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. — Thomas Jefferson

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. — Winston Churchill

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. — Winston Churchill

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Abraham Lincoln

All war is based on deception. — Sun Tzu

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way. — William James

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography. — Ambrose Bierce

I have prayed in her fields of poppies, I have laughed with the men who died – But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands, In the battle’s glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand. — Gordon Johnstone

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. — Barack Obama

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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. — Douglas MacArthur

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! — Helen Keller

I don’t know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me. — Duke of Wellington

If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. — Winston Churchill

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. — Barack Obama

Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous. — Lillian Hellman

The object of war is to survive it. — John Irving

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. — John F. Kennedy

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. — Aldous Huxley

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. — William Tecumseh Sherman

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. — John F. Kennedy

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good things, when short, are twice as good. — Baltasar Gracian

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. — Duke of Wellington

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. — Barack Obama

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. — George Washington

The brazen throat of war. — John Milton

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others. — Horatio Nelson

War hath no fury like a noncombatant. — C. E. Montague

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

Wars and rumours of wars. — Matthew

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. — John F. Kennedy

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. — Ronald Reagan

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. — Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves. — Albert Camus

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war. — George S. Patton

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. — Thomas A. Edison

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy. — Sun Tzu

Ez for war, I call it murder, – There you hev it plain and flat; I don’t want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that. — James Russell Lowell

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But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer. — Helen Thomas

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. — Will Rogers

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. — Thomas Jefferson

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. — Albert Einstein

There was never a good war, or a bad peace. — Benjamin Franklin

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

There never was a good war or a bad peace. — Benjamin Franklin

War remains the decisive human failure. — John Kenneth Galbraith

In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. — German proverb

Vice stirs up war; virtue fights. — Vauvenargues

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. — Bible

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. — Ronald Reagan

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good. — Sun Tzu

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. — George Bernard Shaw

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. — Ron Paul

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. — Jonathan Swift

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much. — Frank Knox

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose. — Henry Kissinger

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. — Aldous Huxley

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one. — Will Rogers

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. — Jeannette Rankin

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Duke of Wellington

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. — Ernest Hemingway

It is not right to exult over slain men. — Homer

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato

War is a defeat for humanity. — Pope John Paul II

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. — Albert Camus

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. — Will Rogers

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. — Norman Schwarzkopf

A bad peace is even worse than war. — Tacitus

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. — Julia Ward Howe

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. — Oscar Wilde

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. — Jean-Paul Sartre

We give up the fort when there’s not a man left to defend it. — General Croghan

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. — George Orwell

Hang yourself, brave Crillon. We fought at Arques, and you were not there. — Henry IV

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

War is the science of destruction. — John S. C. Abbott

So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war’s disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation. — William James

But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy. — Horatio Nelson

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. — John F. Kennedy

World War II was the last government program that really worked. — George Will

war! thou son of Hell! — William Shakespeare

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. — Euripides

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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother. — William Shakespeare

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. — Albert Einstein

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. — Anais Nin

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. — Donald Trump

Morality is contraband in war. — Mahatma Gandhi

In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. — Herodotus

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. — Ernest Hemingway

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. — Winston Churchill

We are not at war against Islam. — Barack Obama

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions. — Robert Ardrey

What millions died – that Caesar might be great! — Thomas Campbell

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. — Winston Churchill

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn’t just my dad’s story, it was my mom’s story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories. — Vanessa Kerry

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. — C. S. Lewis

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis’ future. — Barack Obama

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. — Ron Paul

To hold a pen is to be at war. — Voltaire

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. — Winston Churchill

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. — John F. Kennedy

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? — Benjamin Spock

We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime. — R. I. Fitzhenry

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. — Oscar Wilde

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. — Ernest Hemingway

War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals. — Georges Clemenceau

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. — David Ormsby Gore

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. — Winston Churchill

God how the dead men Grin by the wall, Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball. — Alfred Noyes

And this I hate – not men, nor flag nor race, But only War with its wild, grinning face. — Joseph Dana Miler

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. — John F. Kennedy

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. — Thomas Jefferson

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War never leaves, where it found a nation. — Edmund Burke

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. — William Hazlitt

They will conquer, but they will not convince. — Miguel de Unamuno

Only the dead have seen the end of war. — Plato

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. — Barbara Tuchman

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason. — Ernest Hemingway

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. — Sun Tzu

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. — Henry A. Kissinger

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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