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War’s a brain spattering, wind pipe splitting art
War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
War is the only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
A long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
War is the only sport that is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport that has any intelligible use.
War! That mad game the world so loves to play.
Hw who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
When wars do come, they fall upon the many, the producing class, who are the sufferers.
A great war leaves the country with three armies an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and read the cheek.
The practices of war are so hateful of God, that were not his mercies infinite, it were in vain for whose of that profession to hope for any portion of them.
War is the business of barbarians.
Men who have nice notions of religion have no business to be soldiers.
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the solider, if we would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
I am of opinion that, unless you could bray Christianity in a mortar, and mould it into a new paste, there is no possibility of a holy war.
All the talk of history is of nothing almost but fighting and killing, and the honor and renown which are bestowed on conquerors, who for the most part, are mere butchers of mankind, mislead growing youth, who, by these means come to think slaughter the most laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
The greatest curse that can be entailed on mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace, all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions, or by the thoughtless extravagance of nations, are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over this world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war; every principle of Christianity is trampled upon.
War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost, all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included.
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and just. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
Who has ever told the evils and the curses and the crimes of war? Who can describe the horrors of the carnage of battle? Who can portray the fiendish passions which reign there! If there is anything in which earth, more than any other, resembles hell, it is its wars.
We cannot make a more lively representation and emblem to ourselves of hell, than by the view of a kingdom in war.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet.
War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
War is the only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German author, critic.
A long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist.
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
War is the only sport that is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport that has any intelligible use.
H.L.Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist.
War! That mad game the world so loves to play.
Swift.
Hw who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
Machiavelli.
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Franklin.
When wars do come, they fall upon the many, the producing class, who are the sufferers.
U.S.Grant.
A great war leaves the country with three armies an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
German Proverb.
If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and read the cheek.
J.S.C.Abbott.
The practices of war are so hateful of God, that were not his mercies infinite, it were in vain for whose of that profession to hope for any portion of them.
Sir W.Raleigh.
War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon.
Men who have nice notions of religion have no business to be soldiers.
Wellington.
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the solider, if we would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Machiavelli.
I am of opinion that, unless you could bray Christianity in a mortar, and mould it into a new paste, there is no possibility of a holy war.
Bacon.
All the talk of history is of nothing almost but fighting and killing, and the honor and renown which are bestowed on conquerors, who for the most part, are mere butchers of mankind, mislead growing youth, who, by these means come to think slaughter the most laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.
Locke.
The greatest curse that can be entailed on mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace, all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions, or by the thoughtless extravagance of nations, are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over this world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war; every principle of Christianity is trampled upon.
Sydney Smith.
War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost, all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included.
Robert Hall.
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and just. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
Channing.
Who has ever told the evils and the curses and the crimes of war? Who can describe the horrors of the carnage of battle? Who can portray the fiendish passions which reign there! If there is anything in which earth, more than any other, resembles hell, it is its wars.
Albert Barnes.
We cannot make a more lively representation and emblem to ourselves of hell, than by the view of a kingdom in war.
Clarendom.
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