There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
War should be the only study of a prince. he should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
The slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war.
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the vietnam war. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
Mankind must put and end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
There is always inequality in life. some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. life is unfair.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
How is it possible to have a civil war?
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
War is not won by victory.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Man becomes his most creative during war.
We make war that we may live in peace.
it is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.