War Quotes

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

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"War and photography and all the things that have to do with looks have to do with probability."
Gertrude Stein
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
Carl Sandburg
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"War begins in the minds of people."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"War is a failure of imagination."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
T.S. Eliot
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"Wars come from the desire to make a great man greater and a little man bigger."
Ezra Pound
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"A war fought for the poetry of it is nobler than any other war."
Ezra Pound
"War is the failure of human imagination and compassion."
Carl Sandburg
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"The war, well, well, it was a war."
Gertrude Stein
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"War is the normal state of mankind."
Ezra Pound
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"War is the bankruptcy of statecraft."
Ezra Pound
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"War destroys not just bodies but the human spirit."
Alice Walker
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
Carl Sandburg
"War brings out the worst and best in people."
Carl Sandburg
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"War is failure."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"War destroys what love builds."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Wars are made to make you forget who you are."
Robert Frost
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"War originates in the hearts and minds of people before it manifests in the world."
Alice Walker
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"War is the ultimate failure of human reason and compassion."
Richard Wright
"There is a kind of violence to his act which an outsider finds hard to understand."
Ralph Ellison
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"Violence is the language of those denied all other forms of expression."
Richard Wright
"War creates orphans and widows; peace creates families."
Maya Angelou
"War teaches us the value of peace."
Maya Angelou
"War is the failure of diplomacy and dialogue."
Maya Angelou
"War begins in the human heart before armies ever march."
Ralph Ellison
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"War is the failure of human understanding."
Zora Neale Hurston
"War reveals both the worst and sometimes the best in human character."
Ralph Ellison
"I am convinced that war teaches poorly."
Maya Angelou
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"War takes everything from you, even your capacity to remember peace."
Alice Walker
"War destroys what peace builds."
Toni Morrison