I will not play tug o’ war. I’d rather play hug o’ war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
An army marches on its stomach.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
