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