War Quotes - Page 16

• Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

  James Wolcott

  Peace, Life Is, Owners

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• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Thinking, Times Like These

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, Expression, Certain

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.236, Seven Stories Press

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• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Nature, Memories

  Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

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• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, Military, Hippie

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Mean, Fighting

  "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics".

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• Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Division Of Labor, Modern

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, Doe, Causes

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• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, 4th Of July, Army

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, Order, Liberty

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• What is more immoral than war?

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, Immoral, Anti War

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• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  Carl Sandburg

  Peace, Giving, Conflict

  The People, Yes pt. 23 (1936). The popular form of this expression was crystallized when Charlotte Keyes published an article titled "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came?" in McCall's, Oct. 1966.

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• Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, Community, World

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• Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Problem, Resolve

  Message on the World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 08, 1999.

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• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Tyrants, Democracy

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Trying, Defense, Politics

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• This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Respect, Fear, Hate

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Police Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Beautiful, Peace, Heart

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, Names, Anti War

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• Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

  Orderic Vitalis

  Triumph, East, Pilgrimage

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• Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Peace, Hurt

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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• Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

  William Shakespeare

  Army, Faces, Royal

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.205, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

  Louis XI of France

  Hypocrisy, Reign, Can Not

  "Hist. de France", Volume II, (p. 30) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 682-686), 1922.

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• No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Peace, Lying, Historical

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