War Quotes

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

10745 quotes

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"The most dangerous enemy is not without, but within."
Cosimo de Medici
G
"The war within is the war that matters most."
Girolamo Savonarola
E
"War teaches us the value of peace better than any philosophy."
Edward Wotton
E
"War reveals both the worst and sometimes the best in human nature."
Edward Wotton
C
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Cosimo de Medici
G
"Those who live by the sword shall perish by it, and those who live by greed shall perish by hunger."
Girolamo Savonarola
A
"War teaches us what peace must accomplish if we are ever to evolve beyond ourselves."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
A
"War reveals what peace conceals - the depths of human will and the cost of conflict."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
C
"War teaches what peace could have taught: the value of what we nearly lost."
Cosimo de Medici
E
"War teaches us the value of peace through the demonstration of its cost."
Edward Wotton
C
"War is easy; building peace is the true art."
Cosimo de Medici
G
"War is the failure of reason and dialogue."
Giovan Battista della Porta
G
"War leaves scars that generations must heal."
Giovan Battista della Porta
G
"The war within the soul is far more significant than any war between nations."
Girolamo Savonarola
M
"War is a failure of dialogue; peace is the triumph of understanding."
Matteo Ricci
M
"War leaves scars on the land and the soul; peace is the only true victory."
Matteo Ricci
B
"War originates in misunderstanding; peace grows through shared knowledge."
Bernardino Telesio
P
"War is the greatest teacher of futility and the highest cost of human folly."
Paracelsus
"War brings suffering; let us choose peace instead."
Juan Luis Vives
"War is a failure of wisdom and diplomacy."
Juan Luis Vives
C
"War teaches us the value of peace."
Christine de Pizan
C
"War leaves scars that generations must heal."
Christine de Pizan
G
"War diminishes when understanding increases between peoples."
Giovan Battista della Porta
"War is the failure of wisdom."
Gerolamo Cardano
"War is the failure of wisdom; peace is the triumph of understanding."
Juan Luis Vives
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Nicola Fontana Tartaglia
N
"War leaves scars that generations must heal."
Nicola Fontana Tartaglia
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"Empire of conquest is a vile empire."
Francis Bacon
F
"The victory of the physical over the intellectual in warfare is irreversible."
Francis Bacon
C
"War claims victory but always demands a price measured in human suffering."
Christine de Pizan