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 language fails."
Boris Pasternak
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"War teaches us the value of peace."
Maxim Gorky
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"War is a barbarous institution."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Wars are won by those with stronger conviction, not stronger swords."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"War teaches us the value of peace, yet we keep forgetting the lesson."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"War teaches us that violence is never the solution to human problems."
Maxim Gorky
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"War is a failure of imagination and a triumph of brutality."
Maxim Gorky
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"War reveals both the worst and best of humanity."
Ivan Turgenev
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"War teaches lessons peace can never impart."
Ivan Turgenev
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"War teaches what peace cannot."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Every war begins in the human heart."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"War reveals the basest and noblest aspects of human nature simultaneously."
Nikolai Gogol
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"War is the failure of every other form of human communication."
Nikolai Gogol
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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within them."
Leo Tolstoy
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"War is an admission of defeat in the face of reason."
Leo Tolstoy
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"War is the failure of imagination."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"War is the failure of diplomacy and the triumph of pride."
Ivan Turgenev
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"War is the bankruptcy of diplomacy."
Ivan Turgenev
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"War teaches us nothing except how little we learn from it."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within them."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Among these bought and sold are numberless deaths."
William Butler Yeats
"War is never the answer to what we seek."
Samuel Beckett
"War teaches us the value of peace."
Samuel Beckett
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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within them."
Leo Tolstoy
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"War is not won by courage alone; it is won by preparation."
Anton Chekhov
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"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The war within each man is far greater than any war between nations."
William Butler Yeats
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Thomas Hardy
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"War brings only suffering."
Thomas Hardy
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"War reveals the worst and occasionally the best in human nature."
James Joyce