War Quotes

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
- Herbert V. Prochnow

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
- Fred Woodworth

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters.
- Edward Gibbon

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
- Georges Clemenceau

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

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.
- William Cowper

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals
- Charles Evans Hughes

Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument.
- James Frederick Green

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?
- Joan Baez

We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.
- Jello Biafra