60+ Best War Quotes And Sayings
War is a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country.
1. A bad peace is even worse than war
Tacitus
2. All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Eldridge Cleaver
3. All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck
4. All war is based on deception.
Anonymous
5. All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
6. Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck
7. Appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
8. War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
9. During the war people do not get sick.
Anonymous
10. For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
John Milton
11. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
12. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
13. I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.
Adolf Hitler
14. If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells
15. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Anonymous
16. In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
17. In time of peace prepare for war.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
18. It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them, if double, be able to divide them,if equal,engage them,if fewer, ..
Anonymous
19. It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of …
William Winwood Reade
20. Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu
21. Love is like war….easy to start… difficult to end… and impossible to forget.
Anonymous
22. Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Anonymous
23. May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
George Patton
24. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein
25. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
26. Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
27. Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the …
Arrian
28. Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Anonymous
29. Sometimes we need to lose the small battles in order to win the war.
Anonymous
30. The only defensible war is a war of defense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
31. The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur
33. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
34. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Anonymous
35. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
36. The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.
Martin Luther King Jr
37. The war never ends, it rests.
Anonymous
38. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Anonymous
39. There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
40. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace
George Washington
41. To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one …
Sun Tzu
42. Unless we make our shadows conscious, they will continue to be projected out onto the world. War is nothing more than two sides, each projecting their shadow …
Teal Swan
43. War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will
George Washington
44. War can´t kill love. Love can kill war
Helene Lagerberg
45. War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Anonymous
46. War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can
Winston Churchill
47. War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over
William Tecumseh Sherman
48. War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it
Desiderius Erasmus
49. War is fear cloaked in courage
William Westmoreland
50. War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms
Niccolo Machiavelli
51. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Anonymous
52. War is the science of destruction
John Abbott
53. War is what happens when language fails
Mark Twain
54. War never changes. Men do, through the roads they walk.
Anonymous
55. We must take advantage of the victory in the anti-Japanese War to win our war against the Communist bandits, once for all
Bai Chongxi
56. We that have seen war never stop seeing it.
Anonymous
57. Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits
Sun Tzu
58. Winning the peace is harder than winning the war
Xavier Becerra
59. You Cannot Invade Mainland America. There Would Be A Rifle Behind Every Blade Of Grass
Isoroku Yamamoto
60. War is hell.
Anonymous