War Quotes

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

10745 quotes

"War is the failure of all other human endeavors to reach understanding."
Charles Baudelaire
J
"Wars are won not by strength alone, but by strategy."
Jean Racine
J
"War destroys what peace builds slowly."
Jean Racine
P
"War reveals both the worst and best of human nature."
Pierre Corneille
A
"War is the failure of all preceding conversations."
Arthur Rimbaud
A
"War is what happens when we run out of words."
Arthur Rimbaud
P
"War is the failure of imagination."
Paul Verlaine
P
"War leaves scars that generations must heal."
Paul Verlaine
V
"In this country, it is thought good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."
Voltaire
V
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Voltaire
P
"War reveals the basest and the noblest in human nature"
Pierre Corneille
J
"In conflict, the victor and vanquished often exchange roles."
Jean Racine
P
"War is the failure of humanity to resolve its differences with wisdom."
Paul Verlaine
M
"War is a failure of wisdom, the triumph of folly."
Molière
G
"War is hell."
Gérard de Nerval
V
"War is the failure of wisdom and dialogue."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
V
"War destroys what peace builds."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
T
"War is the worst form of human failure"
Théophile Gautier
G
"War is the triumph of violence over reason."
Guy de Maupassant
G
"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Guy de Maupassant
A
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
A
"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
"War teaches us the value of peace."
Charles Baudelaire
P
"Wars are fought with weapons, but won or lost in the human heart."
Paul Verlaine
A
"War begins in the hearts of men who have forgotten their humanity."
Arthur Rimbaud
A
"War is the failure of all other human capacities."
Arthur Rimbaud
P
"War solves nothing that peace cannot resolve better."
Paul Verlaine
V
"War teaches us the terrible cost of our failures in peace."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
V
"War is the failure of politics and diplomacy."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
A
"War is a failure of diplomacy."
Alexandre Dumas, fils