Why do all rulers hate everyone who is against war in principle? Because they are all slaves to atavistic inertia. Try to speak loudly against the war – and you will immediately be judged for immorality. So, the war is moral.
The people will not want reading material about the war that is descriptive. The people need him from the inside, in his suffering, in his doubts, in his struggle, renewal, and to show him the way and prospects. The people must be glorified, pacified, and brought up in goodness, because so much evil has befallen their lot in one generation that would be enough for ten generations.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
—Socrates
Breathe, Wind of God. Forgiving Love, renew us;
Form us and discipline to Thy desire.
O Man of War, great Son of Man, endue us;
O mighty Spirit, kindle with Thy fire!
—Amy Carmichael
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
—Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
—Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
—Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
—Sun Tzu
What an amazing inconsistency: the death penalty and war are considered essential conditions of life by people who call themselves Christians.
—Leo Tolstoy
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
—Sun Tzu
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
—Sun Tzu
Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.
—Sun Tzu
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.
—Sun Tzu
[During WWI] I hate war, I am tired of the whole business.
—J. Gresham Machen
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
—George Washington
War is progress, peace is stagnation.
—Georg Hegel
To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
—George Washington
To hold a pen is to be at war.
—Voltaire
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
—Sun Tzu
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
—Ernest Hemingway
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
—Socrates
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.
—Sun Tzu
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
—Mark Twain
What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
—Pablo Picasso
The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
—Sun Tzu
We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
—Seneca
One day people will stop fighting, waging war, executing people, and will begin to love one another. This day cannot be evaded, for within every person’s soul lies love, not hatred, toward others. Let’s do all we can to reach this day more quickly.
—Leo Tolstoy
We make war that we may live in peace.
—Aristotle
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
—Julius Caesar