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War Quotes

"All oppression creates a state of war"
Simone de Beauvoir
"The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone"
Thomas Hobbes
"History is written by the victors"
Walter Benjamin
"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it"
Martin Luther
"I shall return"
Douglas MacArthur
"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away"
Douglas MacArthur
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"
Douglas MacArthur
"In war there is no substitute for victory"
Douglas MacArthur
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war"
Douglas MacArthur
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
"Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime"
Ernest Hemingway
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy"
James Madison
"Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Maria Montessori
"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?"
Victor Hugo
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