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 statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"War is a word that no man has a right to use unless he prepares to shed his blood."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"War teaches us the value of peace through the price of conflict."Christina Rossetti
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Robert Browning
"War brings suffering to all who touch it."Johan Christian Andersen
"War leaves scars that generations must heal."Robert Browning
"The Sword sung on high, the Horseman struck, the Child dropp'd down the womb."William Blake
"All the Western Nations cry aloud for War & Ruin."William Blake
"War destroys what love builds in countless lifetimes."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"War leaves scars that generations cannot heal."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"War proves that humanity has failed civility."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"War destroys, but peace builds."Johan Christian Andersen
"Wars are fought in the hearts of men before weapons are drawn"Knut Hamsun
"War shatters the bonds of brotherhood among men."Robert Browning
"War is the bankruptcy of statecraft and human reason."Robert Browning
"Wars are won not by weapons but by the will of the people."Johan Christian Andersen
"War reveals the animal beneath human civilization."Knut Hamsun
"War shows us what civilization truly conceals."Knut Hamsun
"War leaves scars that generations cannot fully heal."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"War is the failure of every other conversation."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"War is the ultimate failure of humanity to communicate."Johan Christian Andersen
"In war, the victor is often the one most willing to betray their own ideals."Knut Hamsun
"War is the statesman's game; but true peace comes only through justice."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The war within ourselves is the only battle that truly matters."Hans Christian Andersen
"War teaches the precious value of peace."Hans Christian Andersen
"War destroys what love builds."Selma Lagerlöf
"War has no victors."Selma Lagerlöf
"War is humanity's greatest tragedy."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"War is the science of destruction."August Strindberg
"War leaves scars on the soul longer than on the land."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson