War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Burge, Tyler
"War teaches us the value of peace through painful experience."Kaplan, David
"War reveals the best and worst of human nature simultaneously."Kaplan, David
"War reveals humanity's greatest capacities for both cruelty and sacrifice."Perry, John
"War is what happens when communication fails and fear takes the helm."Perry, John
"War reveals the consequences of failed understanding."Fine, Kit
"War teaches the price of misunderstanding."Burge, Tyler
"War teaches what peace forgets."Fine, Arthur
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Lewis, David
"War is the failure of wisdom."Geach, Peter
"War teaches us terrible lessons about what peace requires."Fine, Arthur
"War is the most profound failure of understanding."Fine, Arthur
"War is what happens when negotiation has already failed."Lewis, David
"War always costs more than was ever gained in its name."Lewis, David
"War begins in the heart long before it manifests in the world."Fine, Arthur
"War is the failure of imagination."Fine, Arthur
"War is what happens when dialogue becomes impossible."Fine, Kit
"War proves only that force can create silence, not that it creates peace."Fine, Kit
"War is the failure of imagination and the triumph of fear."Lewis, David
"War is what happens when we forget our common humanity."Lewis, David
"War is what happens when dialogue fails."Lewis, David
"War is what happens when dialogue becomes impossible."Feyerabend, Paul
"Anybody who really wants to abolish war must also abolish capitalism."Heisenberg, Werner
"War is the failure of all other forms of human communication."Wigner, Eugene
"War teaches us the value of peace."Wigner, Eugene
"War has often advanced mathematical and technological knowledge."Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan
"War arises from misunderstanding and the failure of imagination."Weyl, Hermann
"War will exist as long as there is a state system."Heisenberg, Werner
"I am convinced that a single coordinated effort of fence humanity could abolish war forever."Einstein, Albert
"War is what happens when wisdom is absent from the council."Poincaré, Henri