10,941 Quotes About War

Democracy only asks its soldiers to defend their own country, dictatorship asks its soldiers to attack other's countries.

Just like when men dueled with swords or pistols to defend their honor--whatever that is--something is wrong with boys that they have to keep fighting in wars generation after generation. They think they will triumph gloriously like a statue of a general in a city park. Instead they come home in pieces.

War demands casualties. Peace, it turns out, does too.

An aggressive nation will spend and sacrifice to win a war; an amicable nation will do the same to prevent a war.

Love, don't fight. But fight for what you love.

The most striking finding is that between 1900 and 2006, nonviolent resistance campaigns were nearly twice as likely to achieve full or partial success as their violent counterparts.

In our data set of 218 violent insurgencies since 1900, democratic governments succeeded only about 5 percent of violent insurgencies.

What my uncle said made me think. I had resented America, too. But by reading their books, I saw the other side of them--their humanity. Somehow I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth.

When those who must do the fighting have the right to decide between war and peace, history will no longer be written in blood.