War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
10745 quotes
A
A
A
A
A
H
B
B
A
S
S
B
M
A
H
B
N
A
A
A
M
M
M
V
A
N
"The entire struggle is about truth against the lie."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"War is the failure of civilization."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"War destroys what peace takes generations to build."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"In war, truth is the first casualty."Anna Akhmatova
"War brings only suffering; peace brings prosperity"Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Peace is merely an armistice between wars."August Strindberg
"War is the continuation of politics by those who have lost their words."Henrik Ibsen
"In times of war, poets become soldiers of truth."Boris Pasternak
"War is the failure of diplomacy and wisdom."Boris Pasternak
"War scars the soul more deeply than it scars the land."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"War is the ultimate failure of human understanding."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"War wounds not only the body but the spirit of humanity."Selma Lagerlöf
"War proves that reason has failed and that all have lost."Selma Lagerlöf
"War is the failure of human wisdom; peace is its triumph."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"In war, as in life, the victor is often the one least equipped to enjoy victory."Boris Pasternak
"War solves nothing that peace cannot solve better."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"War solves nothing but creates suffering."Maxim Gorky
"War reveals what peace conceals: the capacity for both heroism and cowardice in us all."August Strindberg
"War reveals the worst in humanity and sometimes the best."Henrik Ibsen
"War teaches what peace makes us forget."Boris Pasternak
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Nikolai Gogol
"War steals from us not just lives, but the possibility of who we might have been."Anna Akhmatova
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"For a state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Why do we need peace at all if life itself is a war?"Mikhail Lermontov
"War destroys what peace builds."Mikhail Lermontov
"War is the failure of civilization."Mikhail Lermontov
"War is the failure of imagination."Vladimir Nabokov
"War is the worst of human follies."Aleksandr Pushkin
"War is the failure of all other human endeavors."Nikolai Gogol