War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"War leaves scars that generations must heal."Juvenal
"There is no greater evil one man can inflict on another than the taking of his life."Plutarch
"War is the failure of wisdom and the triumph of folly."Apuleius
"The true victor is he who understands his adversary."Strabo
"War is the failure of all other conversations."Petronius
"All forms of violence begin with the mind."Diogenes Laƫrtius
"War is the failure of diplomacy and the triumph of ego."Juvenal
"Wars arise from the projection of inner turmoil onto the external world."Porphyry
"War is the failure of wisdom."Apuleius
"War brings out both the worst and best in us."Martial
"War is never the answer."Martial
"War brings ruin to both victor and vanquished."Ammianus Marcellinus
"War is the failure of civilization."Ammianus Marcellinus
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Suetonius
"War is sweet to those who have never experienced it."Suetonius
"In peace, the sons bury their fathers; in war, the fathers bury their sons."Tacitus
"War is the failure of all other human endeavors."Juvenal
"War creates widows; peace creates mothers."Martial
"War is failure of every other human endeavor."Martial
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Livy
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Pliny the Younger
"War teaches lessons that peace cannot impart, though at terrible cost."Ammianus Marcellinus
"Those who romanticize war have never witnessed its true horrors."Ammianus Marcellinus
"The greatest empires fall not by the sword, but by the corruption of their own hearts."Suetonius
"The greatest victories often come at the greatest cost."Tacitus
"War produces suffering even in victory."Tacitus
"War teaches what peace forgets."Martial
"War is the failure of wisdom."Martial
"From the body we derive our want of courage, and from the same source, through our hunger for wealth, come our wars and quarrels."Pliny the Elder
"War makes thieves, and peace hangs them."Horace