War Quotes

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

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"War scars us, but it also reveals our capacity for heroism."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"War teaches harsh lessons; peace builds lasting solutions."
Nolan Bushnell
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"War teaches us lessons better learned through peace."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"War is failure of the imagination to solve problems creatively."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"The greatest battles are often won through persistence, not force."
Donna Dubinsky
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"War begins in the moment we stop seeing the humanity in another."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"War is the failure of language to bridge the gap between us."
Shunpei Yamazaki
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"War emerges from the failure of different groups to recognize their fundamental interdependence."
Carver Mead
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Gordon Moore
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"War is a process of mutual destruction, governed by the laws of probability."
John von Neumann
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"War teaches us that peace is more valuable than we realize."
Donna Dubinsky
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"War often results from the failure to truly understand the other."
Carver Mead
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"War teaches us that preparation and foresight are more valuable than improvisation."
John von Neumann
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"War teaches lessons that peace should take to heart: the value of cooperation and the cost of division."
John von Neumann
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"The greatest battles are not fought with weapons but with ideas and determination."
Sunita Narain
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"War against nature is war against ourselves."
Sunita Narain
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"War is a failure of human communication and understanding."
Steve Wozniak
"Our violence is always claimed to be for the good."
R.D. Laing
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"War between departments destroys companies."
Reed Hastings
"War teaches harsh lessons about the value of peace and understanding."
Sundar Pichai
"War is failure of understanding; peace is its successful achievement."
Sundar Pichai
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"War seems a natural outlet for human aggression."
Anna Freud
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"War brings out both the worst and best in humanity."
Anna Freud
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"War emerges from the projection of internal aggression outward; peace requires internal integration."
D.W. Winnicott
"We valorize the warrior spirit, yet punish its manifestations."
R.D. Laing
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"War often represents the failure of imagination—the inability to envision solutions beyond destruction."
D.W. Winnicott
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"The state is a machine of oppression"
Pierre Clastres
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"Warfare in primitive societies is ritualized, not total"
Pierre Clastres
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"The greatest violence is done in the name of universal principles."
Louis Dumont
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"War is not natural to man; it is a product of civilized thinking."
Pierre Clastres