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