Famous Quotes About war

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

War settles nothing.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.