Thought-Provoking Quotes On War
Human beings have been fighting wars since prehistory, ever since the notions of territory and ownership came into existence. We often read about the exploits of great kings and generals on the pages of books, and yet, we all can agree that war brings death and destruction on both sides. As we human beings have developed more advanced technology, our wars have become more devastating and further-reaching. While some have tried to justify wars by terming them as 'necessary evils' that sprout from conflicts of interest between two parties striving for existence, the Earth is bountiful enough to provide for the entire human race if we are only able to see past our greed. Moreover, history has shown us that even non-violence can achieve a lot if channeled properly. As new conflicts stir parts of the world each day, let us go through the thought-provoking quotes on war below.
Mark Twain
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Margaret Atwood
War is what happens when language fails.
Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Herbert Hoover
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Sun Tzu
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Haruki Murakami
Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
John Steinbeck
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
Charles Lamb
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Aung San Suu Kyi
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
Steven Spielberg
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.
Aung San Suu Kyi
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
Roseanne Barr
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
Thor Heyerdahl
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
Steven Spielberg
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
John Lennon
War is over ... If you want it.
Thomas Pynchon
They're in love. Fuck the war.
Leo Tolstoy
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Steven Spielberg
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
Sun Tzu
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
George Carlin
How is it possible to have a civil war?
Steven Spielberg
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
Steven Spielberg
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
Martha Gellhorn
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
Steven Spielberg
People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.
Lewis Carroll
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.