10,941 Quotes About War

The ultimate way to fight is to seem not to fight all

You don't arm yourself after war has been declared, Stephan. You build your army so big that no one dares pick the fight.

I have seen too many men willing to fight to the death over a spilled cup of wine to think dying for a cause makes that cause just.

The more who find out about the cure, the more who will go after it. Nations have gone to war over less.

The people who make wars, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word- these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

Contrary to what most politicians and interveners preach, outside experts, national leaders, and top-down approaches are not the only means to reestablishing peace. Bottom-up initiatives can also make a difference, and ordinary people have the capacity to address some of the deeper roots of their country’s problems.

Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world

When I was little I didn't have any special dream about what I wanted to do when I grew up. It was wartime, and we were all more preoccupied by a vague kind of anxiety about simply staying alive. But after I became ill and realized that I would never be able to go out into society again, I started dreaming about what I wanted to be which was hard.

True, they had died in the war, but they had primarily died because they were not stable or self-sufficient, and when the normal business of civilization was interrupted, they had not been able to save themselves.