War Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Naomi Mitchison, 1937. Quoted in Valentine Cunningham, Spanish front: writers on the civil war, 1986 (p 227).
Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
A war is not lost until you consider it lost.
Lead me into war...you know I believe in you.
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
Is your journey really necessary? (2nd World War poster?)
To be involved in this [the Iraq War], frankly, just makes me happy.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means.
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
That's the ultimate pornography... There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
War was a catalog of madness.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War", 1943.
You and your administration misled us into this war.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.