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