38 War Quotes
War Quotes
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
-George Orwell
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
“Let him who desires peace prepare for war.”
-Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
-Aristotle
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
-H. G. Wells
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
-Albert Einstein
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
-Bertrand Russell
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
-John Adams
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.”
-Malcolm X
“It is far easier to make war than peace.”
-Georges Clemenceau
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
-Sun Tzu
“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli
“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
-Winston Churchill
“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”
-Bernard Baruch
“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
-Aristotle
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
-George Orwell
“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
“War is what happens when language fails.”
-Margaret Atwood
“It’s impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.”
-Hillary Clinton
“The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.”
-Malala Yousafzai
“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
-Euripides
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.”
-Carl von Clausewitz
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?”
-Bill Watterson
“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
-Charles de Montesquieu
“In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.”
-Charles Lindbergh
“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
-Howard Zinn
“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
-Julius Caesar
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.”
-Avigdor Lieberman
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
-Sun Tzu
“War is hell.”
-William Tecumseh Sherman
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”
-Thomas Mann
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
