War Quotes

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

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"War is a tragedy, but peace without justice is merely a temporary ceasefire."
Alexander Graham Bell
"The war against nature is ultimately a war against ourselves."
Rachel Carson
"War on nature leaves scars that may never fully heal."
Rachel Carson
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"War solves nothing that peace cannot solve better."
Linus Pauling
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"War is never the answer to conflict."
Linus Pauling
"War never solved anything except to create new problems and new enemies."
Hedy Lamarr
"War proves nothing except humanity's capacity for destruction."
Hedy Lamarr
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"War is the failure of all other conversations."
Enrico Fermi
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"War will exist as long as there is politics."
Niels Bohr
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"It is unwise to be too confident of the event of battle."
Ernest Rutherford
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Enrico Fermi
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"The greatest impact of physics on our civilization has been in the domain of warfare."
Werner Heisenberg
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"War is the failure of human compassion and understanding."
Jane Goodall
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"War solves nothing; understanding is the only true solution."
Jane Goodall
"War is a failure of human wisdom and compassion."
Louis Pasteur
"The human race is not yet ready for a peaceful existence."
Nikola Tesla
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"The dangers of nuclear war are almost incomprehensible. Yet we still play with fire."
Carl Sagan
"Wars are won by weapons, but civilizations are advanced by discoveries."
Louis Pasteur
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Gupta, Akhil
"In the war against disease, the true generals are the ones who understand the enemy completely."
Louis Pasteur
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"War solves nothing except that the strong desire more control than before."
Gupta, Akhil
G
"War is the failure of language to bridge the gap between souls."
Gupta, Akhil
G
"War teaches us that peace is not the absence of conflict, but mastery of it."
Gupta, Akhil
G
"War is what happens when dialogue fails completely."
Gupta, Akhil
G
"War shows us the worst of humanity; peace reveals its best."
Gupta, Akhil
G
"War proves what peace should have prevented."
Gupta, Akhil
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"Biopolitics operates at the level of life itself, not just death."
Puar, Jasbir
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"We are all implicated in the violences we seek to oppose."
Puar, Jasbir
P
"The nation is a violent fiction sustained through repetition."
Puar, Jasbir
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"War begins in the stories we tell about those different from us."
Ahmed, Sara