War Quotes

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

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"War teaches us the value of peace."
Langston Hughes
"War teaches us that conflict can be transformed but never truly escaped."
Ralph Ellison
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"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
John Steinbeck
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
John Steinbeck
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"The country is at war. Yet from the very beginning it does not seem like a real war."
Pearl S. Buck
"War reveals both the worst and sometimes the best in human nature."
Ralph Ellison
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"War destroys the very things that make us human; let us choose peace instead."
Langston Hughes
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"I have learned that war is not just a military affair, but a constant state of the oppressed."
Richard Wright
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"Misery and monotony—that is what slavery has created."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"War solves nothing; peace builds everything."
Pearl S. Buck
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"War is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
John Steinbeck
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"Maybe the only thing worse than fighting for your country is not fighting for it."
William Faulkner
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"War is man's greatest failure."
William Faulkner
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"War solves nothing; only dialogue can heal."
Langston Hughes
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"War is the failure of human wisdom."
Langston Hughes
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"Brave men have fought here, now cripples and the crazy pray here."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Wars are made by politicians and fought by soldiers."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The wars we wage—and the peace we make—are both within ourselves."
James Baldwin
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"War does not solve problems; it merely postpones them with great cost."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway
"War is a disease."
Theodore Dreiser
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"War is not an instrument of policy."
Pearl S. Buck
"The world is, of course, never the same after a war."
Willa Cather
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"War is the only thing that's important."
Ernest Hemingway
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"All War is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
John Steinbeck
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"How easy it is to lose a war you're winning."
John Steinbeck
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"War is humanity's greatest failure of imagination."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"War is the ultimate expression of human failure, yet it persists inevitable."
Theodore Dreiser
"War is the failure of human wisdom."
Harriet Beecher Stowe