War Quotes

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

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"War solves nothing; dialogue solves everything."
Freeman Dyson
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means, but a failed politics nonetheless."
Murray Gell-Mann
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"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
Robert Wilson
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"War scarifies those who wage it, even in victory."
Maarten Schmidt
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"War is the failure of human imagination."
Maarten Schmidt
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"War is the failure of imagination and the triumph of fear."
Robert Wilson
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"War teaches us the value of peace; conflict teaches us the power of understanding."
John Wheeler
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"I am convinced that to avoid nuclear war it is not enough to be convinced its bad – we must also be convenienced that it cannot happen."
Freeman Dyson
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"War is what happens when we forget we are all made of the same stardust."
Maarten Schmidt
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"War is the failure of imagination and empathy."
Maarten Schmidt
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"War is a failure of imagination and a failure of leadership."
Freeman Dyson
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"War is the failure of imagination on a catastrophic scale."
Robert Wilson
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"War is ideology with a body count."
Robert Wilson
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"War teaches us everything about human nature except how to live together."
Robert Wilson
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"War is often the result of failed communication."
Leon Lederman
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"War is the failure of human understanding."
Simon van der Meer
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"War solves nothing that peace cannot solve better."
Simon van der Meer
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"War cannot defeat ideas backed by evidence."
François Englert
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"War between ideas is preferable to war between nations."
Fred Hoyle
"War against limitations is won through persistent inquiry."
Carlo Rubbia
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"War between ideologies has no place in the pursuit of truth."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"War between nations wastes resources that could advance human knowledge."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"War is a failure of human wisdom and imagination."
Stanley Cohen
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Herbert Boyer
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"In war, truth is the first casualty."
Herbert Boyer
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Kary Mullis
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"War is a failure of human understanding."
Fred Sanger
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"War creates wounds that generations must heal."
Fred Sanger
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the only war worth fighting."
Herbert Boyer
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"War is the failure of all else."
Fred Sanger