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