War Quotes

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

10745 quotes

"War leaves no victors, only survivors."
Catherine de Medici
J
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Jean d'Alembert
J
"War leaves scars that generations cannot heal."
Jean d'Alembert
M
"War is the absence of wisdom."
Marsilio Ficino
M
"War destroys what peace builds."
Marsilio Ficino
P
"War diminishes when wisdom grows among men."
Poliziano Angelo
"War is the failure of wisdom; it is what happens when we forget how to think together."
Émilie du Châtelet
P
"War is a failure of wisdom and diplomacy."
Pico della Mirandola
G
"War is a failure of human compassion."
Giambattista della Porta
G
"War destroys, peace builds."
Giambattista della Porta
M
"War is the disease of the body politic; peace is its health."
Marsilio Ficino
"War is born from the failure of wisdom"
Giambattista Vico
P
"War reveals the worst of humanity; peace reveals its best."
Pico della Mirandola
P
"War begins in the hearts of men; peace must also begin there."
Pico della Mirandola
G
"War teaches harsh lessons about human nature that peace allows us to forget."
Giambattista della Porta
M
"War is the failure of imagination and understanding."
Marsilio Ficino
M
"War represents the lowest expression of human nature without wisdom."
Marsilio Ficino
"History demonstrates that tyrants inevitably fall when they lose the support of their people."
Giambattista Vico
"Wars arise when justice is forgotten and power is pursued for its own sake."
Giambattista Vico
"War teaches harsh lessons that peace cannot."
Catherine de Medici
G
"War teaches us the value of peace through bitter experience."
Giambattista della Porta
P
"War is the failure of wisdom and the triumph of folly."
Pico della Mirandola
"War is peace by other means, and peace is war by diplomacy."
Catherine de Medici
M
"War is the failure of the soul to communicate with other souls."
Marsilio Ficino
E
"War does not determine who is right—only who is left."
Edward Wotton
E
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
Edward Wotton
G
"War is the failure of wisdom and justice."
Girolamo Savonarola
A
"War is the result of misunderstanding; peace is the fruit of true comprehension."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
E
"War teaches lessons that peace would prefer we never learned."
Edward Wotton
E
"War is the bankruptcy of diplomacy and wisdom alike."
Edward Wotton