War and Peace

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

 John Stuart Mill, in  War and Peace

All warfare is based on deception.

 Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in  War and Peace

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

 Benito Mussolini, in  War and Peace

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

 Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in  War and Peace

Close the book and open your heart.

 Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in  War and Peace

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

 Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in  War and Peace

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  War and Peace

Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  War and Peace

Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Law and Politics and  War and Peace

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

 Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in  Success and Failure and  War and Peace

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

 Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in  Life and Death and  War and Peace

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

 Unknown, in  War and Peace

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

 Unknown, in  War and Peace

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

 Albert Einstein, in  War and Peace

When elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt.

 Unknown, in  War and Peace

The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley.

 Andrew Warnick, in  War and Peace

Every soldier is an enemy.

 Erno Paasilinna, in  War and Peace