War Quotes

Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.

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"War tests not just armies, but the very soul of a nation."
Hernando de Soto
"War proves that force alone cannot sustain empires."
Hernando de Soto
A
"War is a failure of understanding and compassion."
Angus Deaton
A
"War teaches us the cost of misunderstanding."
Angus Deaton
R
"War teaches us the terrible cost of failing to choose peace."
Raj Patel
R
"War is the failure of all other forms of communication and negotiation."
Raj Patel
R
"War is what happens when we forget that the enemy also dreams of home."
Raj Patel
"War solves nothing that peace cannot solve more elegantly."
Hernando de Soto
T
"Wars are often fought over resources and wealth distribution"
Thomas Piketty
E
"War is often the result of failed institutional design and communication."
Elinor Ostrom
M
"War can sometimes break the hold of distributional coalitions."
Mancur Olson
M
"Trade wars destroy the institutions that peaceful exchange requires."
Mancur Olson
"War teaches lessons that peace cannot."
Hernando de Soto
"War is the failure of wisdom."
Hernando de Soto
A
"War's greatest cost is not measured in money but in lost potential"
Angus Deaton
"War, I learned, is less about winning and more about who is willing to endure the longest."
Hernando de Soto
A
"War is the failure of human wisdom."
Amartya Sen
"War is a failure of diplomacy and wisdom."
James Tobin
"War leaves scars on nations and souls."
James Tobin
T
"War has always been about controlling wealth and resources, never truly about ideals."
Thomas Piketty
T
"War and inequality are siblings; eliminate one and weaken the other."
Thomas Piketty
"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Kenneth Arrow
"War devastates; peace builds."
Kenneth Arrow
M
"Wars can paradoxically make collective action easier by creating urgency and shared threat perception."
Mancur Olson
"War destroys human capital."
Gary Becker
"War is always a failure of reason."
Gary Becker
A
"The money supply during wartime is often expanded beyond what peacetime would support."
Anna Schwartz
P
"War is economically destructive."
Paul Samuelson
"War and conflict reveal the stakes embedded in economic systems."
Kenneth Arrow
"War teaches harsh lessons about the fragility of cooperative systems."
Kenneth Arrow