War Quotes

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

10745 quotes

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"War reveals both the worst and best of human nature."
Antonio Genovesi
J
"The war has revealed the extraordinary financial power of the United States."
John Maynard Keynes
J
"We have involved ourselves in a colossal physical feat of no economic value to anyone."
John Maynard Keynes
G
"War is born from human desires"
Giovanni Vico
G
"War arises from the collision of incompatible perceptions of truth."
George Berkeley
J
"War reveals both the depths of human depravity and heights of human sacrifice."
Johann Tetens
J
"War is the failure of human imagination and reason."
Johann Tetens
G
"War is the forge in which nations are tempered and tested."
Giovanni Vico
J
"War is the failure of human understanding."
Johann Herder
C
"War is the failure of reason and the triumph of passion."
Catharine Macaulay
C
"War leaves scars that generations cannot heal."
Catharine Macaulay
H
"War is the kingdom of accident."
Hugo Grotius
H
"War brings suffering and loss."
Hugo Grotius
C
"War arises from the failure to understand our common humanity and reason."
Christian Wolff
J
"War destroys what centuries build"
Jean Bodin
J
"War is the failure of diplomacy and understanding"
Jean Bodin
H
"A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand."
Hugo Grotius
J
"War impoverishes the spirit even when it does not impoverish the purse."
Johann Herder
J
"War may win territory but never wins hearts truly reconciled."
Johann Herder
G
"War and conflict arise from the struggle for dominion."
Giovanni Vico
H
"War is the condition in which useful destructive acts upon a person are not crimes."
Hugo Grotius
H
"War should always be the last resort, never the first."
Hugo Grotius
J
"Wars are fought first in the hearts of men before they begin on battlefields."
Jean Bodin
J
"War is the failure of all other forms of human discourse."
Jean Bodin
C
"War is a failure of reason and a triumph of disorder."
Christian Wolff
J
"War is the most pestilential of all scourges."
Johann Goethe
"War is the failure of wisdom and compassion."
Moses Mendelssohn
"War leaves scars that peace must heal."
Moses Mendelssohn
C
"War is the continuation of injustice by other means."
Catharine Macaulay
J
"War is the bankruptcy of human reason."
Johann Herder