War Quotes

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

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"War is what happens when conversation fails to kill enough people."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"War is what we choose when we have failed to imagine alternatives."
François Mauriac
"War is a crime. Ask the dead."
Mark Twain
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"Youth is the first victim of war."
Herman Melville
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"The seeds of war are planted in the gardens of peace."
Herman Melville
"War is the natural state of human affairs."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"War is simply politics by other means and methods."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"War is the failure of human dialogue."
Romain Rolland
"War leaves scars on humanity."
Romain Rolland
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"War is a calamity which grows worse the longer it is prolonged."
Anatole France
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"War reveals both the worst and occasionally the best of humanity."
François Mauriac
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"War teaches the profound lesson that force is not the highest law"
Henry James
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The war taught us to understand the true nature of human suffering."
Marcel Proust
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"War is the natural expression of human ambition and pride."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"War is a crime against humanity."
Romain Rolland
"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Romain Rolland
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means, or so some soldier said."
Anatole France
"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means, and both are futile."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"War is the continuation of failure by other means."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"War is the failure of all other forms of communication."
Marcel Proust
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"We are dying and we are killing one another; the question becomes, why?"
Albert Camus
"War is humanity's greatest failure; peace is our highest achievement."
Romain Rolland
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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Anatole France
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"War should be undertaken with reluctance."
Montesquieu
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"Violence is the language of the oppressed"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"War is the failure of diplomacy and the triumph of the weak."
Marcel Proust
"War is the failure of human wisdom."
Romain Rolland
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things."
Denis Diderot
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"War destroys what peace builds."
Denis Diderot