War Quotes

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

10745 quotes

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