The first way to lose a state is to neglect the art of war; the first way to gain a state is to be skilled in the art of war.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

War is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage.

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.

That's the attractive thing about war. Absolutely everything gets a little something.

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.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

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 only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.