War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"War is failure of diplomacy, imagination, and compassion."Christine de Pizan
"War teaches man nothing but the art of destruction."Francesco Petrarch
"War is the failure of all other human endeavors."Juan Luis Vives
"War teaches us what we should have learned in peace."Gerolamo Cardano
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Francis Bacon
"War is the failure of imagination, the admission that we cannot conceive of any other path forward."Matteo Ricci
"War teaches terrible lessons well; peace requires learning more subtle and difficult truths."Matteo Ricci
"War teaches us that peace is not merely the absence of conflict, but active harmony."Giovan Battista della Porta
"War reveals the worst in human nature, yet sometimes becomes necessary to preserve what is good."Juan Luis Vives
"War is the plague of mankind, and peace is the cure."Francesco Petrarch
"Wars are now principally decided by money."Francis Bacon
"War against tyrants is obedience to God."Francesco Petrarch
"War is a failure of reason and a victory of barbarism."Juan Luis Vives
"In war, both victor and vanquished lose what matters most."Matteo Ricci
"War leaves scars on nations and souls that time alone cannot heal."Baltasar Gracián
"War and violence are the failures of wisdom and compassion."Niccolò Copernicus
"War is the failure of diplomacy and human reason."Niccolò Copernicus
"War destroys what peace builds."Raphael Sanzio
"Peace is worth more than victory."Raphael Sanzio
"War brings nothing but sorrow."Giordano Bruno
"War destroys what peace builds."Giordano Bruno
"War is the greatest plague of humanity."Thomas More
"War proves that diplomacy failed, not that strength conquered."Baltasar Gracián
"War is the failure of human imagination."Baltasar Gracián
"War is the product of ignorance and fear."Giordano Bruno
"War wounds the conscience of humanity."Giordano Bruno
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."Desiderius Erasmus
"War comes easy when soldiers are hungry."Desiderius Erasmus
"The wound of war never truly heals; it only learns to hide its scar."Thomas More
"War is the failure of imagination."Giordano Bruno