War Quotes

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

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"War diminishes the humanity of all who wage it."
Moses Mendelssohn
H
"In the midst of arms, the laws are not silent, but they speak with measured voice."
Hugo Grotius
H
"The blood of innocent people cries out against those who shed it unjustly."
Hugo Grotius
H
"Wars are won not by superior force, but by superior understanding."
Hugo Grotius
H
"The greatest battles are fought not with swords, but with arguments."
Hugo Grotius
F
"War is the judge of all things."
Friedrich Schiller
J
"Those who live in peace must always be prepared for war, for security demands vigilance."
Jean Bodin
C
"War arises from the failure of reason; peace from its triumph."
Christian Wolff
"War teaches us the value of what peace provides."
Moses Mendelssohn
C
"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
C
"War leaves scars that generations must heal."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
P
"War is the invention of the devil."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
J
"War is the failure of reason, yet sometimes necessary when reason itself is under attack."
Jean Bodin
"War is the ultimate failure of human reason and moral imagination."
Moses Mendelssohn
J
"War could be prevented if men understood the mathematics of human nature."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
J
"War is made inevitable by the ignorance that prevents us from understanding one another."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
"War is often the result of failures in dialogue and diplomacy."
Moses Mendelssohn
J
"War is a plague that society must learn to overcome."
Jean d'Alembert
J
"War is the failure of reason and diplomacy."
Jean d'Alembert
"War is the failure of human reason."
Moses Mendelssohn
C
"War is the worst evil, born from ignorance and the failure to understand mutual interest."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
G
"War is the failure of wisdom."
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
G
"War leaves scars that generations cannot heal."
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
P
"War begins in the minds made ignorant and desperate by those in power."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
J
"War is a failure of civilization."
Jean d'Alembert
J
"War settles nothing except the question of strength, not justice."
Jean d'Alembert
"War often stems from the inability to perceive our common humanity through differing sensations."
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
C
"War is the failure of diplomacy and reason."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
P
"War is born from the ignorance of men."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Catherine de Medici