War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."Franklin D. Roosevelt
"War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy."Benito Mussolini
"The pen is mightier than the sword only when the sword does not strike first."Vladimir Lenin
"The war will change the course of history."Vladimir Lenin
"War settles nothing when the passion and resentments, the hatreds and fears are left in the minds of men."Eleanor Roosevelt
"The moment there is in any country violence and hatred between different races, that country is ruined."Mahatma Gandhi
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."Mahatma Gandhi
"When the war of the giants is over the war of the pygmies will begin."Winston Churchill
"War is the continuation of politics by other means"Jorge Edwards
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."Martin Luther King Jr.
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars."Franklin D. Roosevelt
"War is a contagion, whether declared or undeclared."Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object."Abraham Lincoln
"War is the failure of imagination to envision alternatives to violence."Jorge Edwards
"A prisoner of war is a man who has tried to kill you and for political reasons has to be kept alive."Winston Churchill
"Death and sorrow will be the companions of those who oppose us."Winston Churchill
"To be human is to be at war with yourself."Kathy Acker
"War destroys what peace takes years to build"Miguel Ángel Asturias
"War destroys what peace takes generations to build."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"War destroys what peace takes generations to build."Gioconda Belli
"It is impossible to overlook the fact that misery and poverty are the root cause of international conflicts and wars."Mahatma Gandhi
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."Martin Luther King Jr.
"War leaves scars upon the world"Rubén Darío
"War destroys what peace builds"Rubén Darío
"War is the failure of imagination and the triumph of fear."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"War begins when we forget our common humanity."Gioconda Belli
"War is the failure of wisdom."Rosario Castellanos
"War is the failure of imagination and the triumph of barbarism."Rubén Darío
"War proves only that humans have not yet learned to solve conflicts with wisdom."Rubén Darío
"War begins in the mind before it touches the earth."Gioconda Belli