War Quotes

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

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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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"What if the Church and the State are the mob that howls at the door?"
William Butler Yeats
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"War is hell, but peace is mere boredom interrupted by commercials."
George Bernard Shaw
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"War is the ultimate failure of imagination and compassion."
Thomas Hardy
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"War is the failure of imagination to bridge the gulf between souls."
Thomas Hardy
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"War reveals what peace conceals about human nature."
Thomas Hardy
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"War is the failure of all other solutions."
Anne Brontë
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"War wounds not just the body but the spirit"
Charles Dickens
"War is the failure of civilization."
Émile Zola
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Victor Hugo
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"War leaves scars that time cannot fully heal."
Alexandre Dumas
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"War solves nothing that dialogue cannot solve better."
Alexandre Dumas
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"War diminishes our humanity."
Charlotte Brontë
"War reveals the worst in humanity; peace reveals the best."
Émile Zola
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"War is the gaping maw of hell itself."
Victor Hugo
"War teaches us the value of peace; loss teaches us the value of love."
Gustave Flaubert
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"War reveals the worst in humanity, but also the best in sacrifice."
Alexandre Dumas
"You will hear of wars and rumours of wars."
Mary Shelley
"War is humanity's greatest failure and severest teacher."
Émile Zola
"War teaches lessons peace never can."
Émile Zola
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"In war, the first casualty is always truth."
Honoré de Balzac
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"In every battle, there is a choice between justice and victory."
Honoré de Balzac
"War destroys what peace builds."
William Wordsworth
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"War destroys; peace builds."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Wars are fought for pride; peace is won through humility."
Alexandre Dumas
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"War reveals both the best and worst of human nature."
Honoré de Balzac
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"War is a failure of imagination."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"War is the scourge of humanity."
Mary Shelley