War Quotes

"War begins when dialogue ends; we must therefore preserve space for disagreement."

"Wars are not won by weapons alone but by the will to persevere despite losses."

"War destroys wealth and creates nothing."

"War emerges from the failure to see shared humanity."

"War is the health of the state, in the sense that it always expands government power and control."

"The true cost of war is not measured in dollars, but in lost opportunities and human potential."

"Violence is the default tool when persuasion fails—the nature of power."

"Call them soldiers, call them murderers, call them what you will."

"War is the greatest of evils."

"War is hell."

"War is a failure of reason and imagination."

"War emerges from the failure to imagine the enemy's perspective."

"The state's monopoly on violence is presented as legitimate law."

"The state uses law to legalize its own violence."

"Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. In economic wars nations battle each other to control resources and trade."

"War is the failure of reason and dialogue."

"War leaves scars that generations inherit."

"War is hell."

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

"War arises from competing interests poorly understood."

"War reveals both the worst and occasionally the best in human nature."

"Inflation is the way governments wage war on their own citizens"

"War is the failure of everything else; its success is the measure of our collective failure."

"War returns us to our most primitive selves; peace requires our highest virtues."

"War arises inevitably when machines compete for the same resources."

"War often results from the attempt of one group to impose its vision on another."

"War arises from the inability to reconcile different perceptions."

"War is the failure of reason to govern the passions."

"War may sometimes be necessary, but it represents a failure of reason and moral development."

"War teaches bitter lessons about human nature; peace builds upon the knowledge it imparts."