War(77)

"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
Henry A. Kissinger

"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world."
Robert E. Lee

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
Thomas Mann

"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."
Colman McCarthy

"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."
George McGovern

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
George McGovern

"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."
John Stuart Mill

""There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."
James Morrow

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
Jose Narosky