War Quotes

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

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"War is the failure of imagination and empathy."
Elsa Morante
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Umberto Eco
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"War is the confession that politics has failed."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"The banality of evil lies in its ordinariness."
Primo Levi
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"War breaks not just bodies but the foundations of society."
Primo Levi
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"The war between self and society is the only war that truly matters."
Elsa Morante
"War teaches lessons peace refuses to learn"
Italo Svevo
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"Violence and arms have always been the ultima ratio in human affairs."
Cesare Pavese
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"War is what happens when words fail us."
Dino Buzzati
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"War teaches us what we should have learned in peace."
Dino Buzzati
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"War destroys what peace can build."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"War is the failure of human wisdom."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means"
Umberto Eco
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"War is what happens when words fail"
Umberto Eco
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"War is the greatest evil of mankind."
Giosue Carducci
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"Peace is harder won than any war."
Giosue Carducci
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"War reveals both the worst and the best in human nature."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"War destroys; peace builds."
Giovanni Verga
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"War is the failure of imagination."
Italo Calvino
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"We are all soldiers in a war we never declared."
Dino Buzzati
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"Every age has its wars, and every generation must choose its side."
Giosue Carducci
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"War is the failure of civilization; peace is its success."
Giosue Carducci
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"War reveals both the worst and best of human nature."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"War is the failure of all other means of understanding."
Alessandro Manzoni
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"War leaves scars that generations cannot heal."
Alessandro Manzoni
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"War is the failure of the imagination."
Italo Calvino
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"War teaches us nothing except that we never learn."
Luigi Pirandello
"War is the failure of all other human endeavors."
Italo Svevo
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"Every war is fought twice, once on the field and once in the sign systems of culture."
Umberto Eco
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"War teaches lessons that peace cannot erase."
Giovanni Verga