War Quotes

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

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"War proves that conflict within us mirrors conflict without."
Jacques Charles
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
Bertrand Russell
"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
Bertrand Russell
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"The greatest battles are fought not with swords, but with ideas."
Hans Christian Ørsted
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"War is often the failure of diplomacy."
Gilbert Lewis
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"War against ignorance is the only war a scientist should willingly wage."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"War against superstition is won through education and persistent evidence."
Joseph Gay-Lussac
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"The cost of war is too terrible for any but the most justified causes."
Robert Boyle
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"War is the failure of diplomacy."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"War teaches us through suffering what peace teaches us through joy."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Wars are won by those who understand strategy as applied mathematics."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"War is the failure of diplomacy, reason, and wisdom combined."
Leonhard Euler
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"War is the bankruptcy of human reason."
Leonhard Euler
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"War is the failure of all other solutions."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"War is the failure of reason."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"I have not been able to discover the cause of wars ending, but I have discovered the cause of their beginning."
Archimedes
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"War teaches us that peace is a science, not a gift."
Archimedes
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"War destroys; mathematics builds bridges between human understanding."
Leonhard Euler
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"War is the realm of uncertainty."
René Descartes
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"War is the failure of wisdom."
Christiaan Huygens
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"War is the failure of reason and diplomacy."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"What is warfare but the application of mathematics to the most tragic purpose?"
Archimedes
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"War is the failure of reason and diplomacy."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"War is the failure of reason and the triumph of ego."
René Descartes
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"War between ideas, conducted through rigorous debate, advances knowledge infinitely."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"War teaches us what peace teaches more gently: the value of harmony."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Wars are won by those who think most clearly, not those who act most violently."
René Descartes
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"War arises from failures in understanding and communication."
Ivan Pavlov
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"War is a failure of the mind."
Ivan Pavlov