War Quotes

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

10745 quotes

"War brings only sorrow and pain."
Peter Sellers
F
"War teaches us that human beings are capable of both the worst and the most absurd."
Frankie Howerd
T
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Terry Gilliam
T
"War is the failure of imagination."
Terry Gilliam
T
"War is always a failure of diplomacy."
Terry Gilliam
E
"War is the failure of diplomacy"
Eric Idle
T
"War is what happens when diplomacy runs out of metaphors."
Tony Hancock
R
"War solves nothing that peace cannot solve better."
Redd Foxx
"War is a failure of imagination."
Spike Milligan
"War is when we stop pretending and start showing our true characters."
Peter Sellers
"War reveals what peace was hiding all along."
Peter Sellers
T
"War proves that humans are capable of being less intelligent than animals"
Tony Hancock
E
"War proves that humans haven't learned much from history."
Eric Idle
E
"War is what happens when diplomacy fails and humor is absent."
Eric Idle
R
"War proves that civilization is just one bad day away from chaos."
Redd Foxx
T
"War is what happens when compromise becomes impossible."
Terry Gilliam
J
"War is the failure of diplomacy."
John Cleese
J
"War leaves scars that generations cannot heal."
John Cleese
"War is good for absolutely nothing"
Monty Python
E
"War settles nothing; dialogue and understanding do."
Eric Idle
E
"War devastates; peace builds slowly but surely."
Eric Idle
J
"War teaches us lessons we wish we'd learned differently"
John Cleese
"War is what happens when people forget how to use their words properly."
Monty Python
T
"In the end, all wars are fought in the human imagination first."
Terry Gilliam
"War is capitalism with the gloves off."
Spike Milligan
"I must have killed about a million men and now it's time for me to go."
Spike Milligan
E
"War proves that intelligence is rarer than courage"
Eric Idle
A
"War destroys."
Andy Samberg
J
"Most wars start because people aren't willing to listen to the other side."
John Cleese
"War teaches us that peace is precious."
Cecily Strong