My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.
My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.
The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.
Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.
Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life – in war or whatever – and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I’m OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
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.
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn’t know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people’s powers of resistance.
The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn’t like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty’s vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Every nation has its war party… It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t.
Quickness is the essence of the war.
Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.
