Some quotes on war

The problem with sports and war is that God is on everyone's side. -Duane Alan Hahn

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. -Norman Vincent Peale

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

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 direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.-David Friedman

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.-Salvor Hardin

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. -Margaret Mitchell

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.-Tony Benn

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.-Otto Von Bismarck

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.-General Omar Bradley

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share. -Virginia Woolf

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.-Elie Wiesel

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.-Desiderius Erasmus

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. -Abbie Hoffman

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. -Andre Gide

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

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers. -Myriam Miedzian

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. 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

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.-Douglas MacArthur

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