War is not at all such a difficult art as people think…. In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
How despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
War is not its own end except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. Its peace thats wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
In his later reminiscences Ulysses S. Grant roundly condemned the Mexican War in which he had served and even saw the Civil War as a sort of karmic retribution for Americas sins against its southern neighbor: Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself I was bitterly opposed to the measure and to this day regard the war which resulted as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war but generally one will do it.
John Daltons records carefully preserved for a century were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them war becomes as important for the necessary period as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis – an American decision that this is sport or that it is business.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about getting under the feet of the women who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city no munitions plants no docks. It erased no church vaporized no public buildings reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell it fell.
If it were proved to me that in making war my ideal had a chance of being realized I would still say no to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
War! When I but think of this word I feel bewildered as though they were speaking to me of sorcery of the Inquisition of a distant finished abominable monstrous unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals we smile proudly as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish or those who struggle merely to kill?
The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
Whence comes war and fighting and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars yes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think…. In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
How despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
War is not nice.
Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come.
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
War is not its own end except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. Its peace thats wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
Either war is obsolete or men are.
It is well that war is so terrible or we should get too fond of it.
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
In his later reminiscences Ulysses S. Grant roundly condemned the Mexican War in which he had served and even saw the Civil War as a sort of karmic retribution for Americas sins against its southern neighbor: Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself I was bitterly opposed to the measure and to this day regard the war which resulted as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war but generally one will do it.
John Daltons records carefully preserved for a century were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
War would end if the dead could return.
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them war becomes as important for the necessary period as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis – an American decision that this is sport or that it is business.
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?
Wars never hurt anybody except the people who die.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities so absolutely terrifying that even man the fighter who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death will be appalled and so abandon war forever.
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about getting under the feet of the women who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth so they make up for it with death. Unlike women men menstruate by shedding other peoples blood.
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.
The tragedy of war is that it uses mans best to do mans worst.
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.
The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city no munitions plants no docks. It erased no church vaporized no public buildings reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell it fell.
Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
If it were proved to me that in making war my ideal had a chance of being realized I would still say no to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
War! When I but think of this word I feel bewildered as though they were speaking to me of sorcery of the Inquisition of a distant finished abominable monstrous unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals we smile proudly as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish or those who struggle merely to kill?
Everyones a pacifist between wars. Its like being a vegetarian between meals.
The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask Mother what was war?
In war there are no unwounded soldiers.
Whence comes war and fighting and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars yes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
War does not determine who is right only who is left.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
When the rich wage war its the poor who die.