Top 100 Best speaking the language of war quote
Here are some of the top quotes that speak to the language of war:
- “In war, truth is the first casualty.” — Aeschylus
- “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” — Bertrand Russell
- “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” — Sun Tzu
- “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” — Plato
- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” — George Orwell
- “All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.” — John Steinbeck
- “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein
- “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” — Carl von Clausewitz
- “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” — Robert E. Lee
- “War is what happens when language fails.” — Margaret Atwood
- “Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover
- “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” — William Tecumseh Sherman
- “War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” — Thomas Mann
- “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” — George Washington
- “War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.” — Georges Clemenceau
- “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” — H.G. Wells
- “War makes strange bedfellows.” — William Shakespeare
- “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” — George S. Patton
- “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” — Jeannette Rankin
- “War is the mother of all battles.” — Saddam Hussein
- “The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” — Norman Schwarzkopf
- “In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” — Herodotus
- “War is hell.” — William Tecumseh Sherman
- “All warfare is based on deception.” — Sun Tzu
- “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
- “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” — José Narosky
- “Wars begin in the minds of men.” — UNESCO Constitution
- “War is fear cloaked in courage.” — William Westmoreland
- “The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” — David Friedman
- “War is the unfolding of miscalculations.” — Barbara W. Tuchman
- “We make war that we may live in peace.” — Aristotle
- “What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “In war, there are no winners, only survivors.” — Anonymous
- “War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.” — Napoleon Hill
- “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” — G.K. Chesterton
- “It is easier to make war than peace.” — Georges Clemenceau
- “When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
- “War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” — Thomas Mann
- “War is too important to be left to the generals.” — Georges Clemenceau
- “War is organized murder, and nothing else.” — Harry Patch
- “The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.” — Charles Evans Hughes
- “In every battle, there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then, he who continues the attack wins.” — Ulysses S. Grant
- “War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “A mind at peace does not engender wars.” — Sophocles
- “The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.” — Desiderius Erasmus
- “War is the trade of kings.” — John Dryden
- “If you want peace, prepare for war.” — Vegetius
- “Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “War is a defeat for humanity.” — Pope John Paul II
- “The purpose of all war is peace.” — Saint Augustine
- “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” — Jeannette Rankin
- “War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.” — Winston Churchill
- “Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
- “War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “War is the province of danger.” — Carl von Clausewitz
- “The sinews of war are infinite money.” — Cicero
- “The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.” — Thomas Jefferson
- “When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.” — Arthur Ponsonby
- “There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.” — Niccolò Machiavelli
- “War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.” — Carl von Clausewitz
- “In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.” — Julius Caesar
- “Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.” — Muhammad Ali
- “War is never a lasting solution for any problem.” — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- “War is the enemy of progress.” — Johan Galtung
- “In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway
- “War is a necessary evil.” — Condoleezza Rice
- “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” — Karl Marx
- “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “War is the last refuge of the incompetent.” — Isaac Asimov
- “War is the failure of diplomacy.” — Tony Benn
- “War is the continuation of diplomacy by other means.” — Karl von Clausewitz
- “War is the father of all things.” — Heraclitus
- “War is the health of the state.” — Randolph Bourne
- “War is the terrorism of the rich.” — Peter Ustinov
- “War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.” — Martin Luther
- “War is not a word, it is a wound.” — George Herbert
- “War is what happens when language fails.” — Margaret Atwood
- “War is the enemy of love.” — John Paul Lederach
- “War is the unfolding of miscalculations.” — Barbara W. Tuchman
- “War is the sure result of moral degradation.” — George Washington
- “War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.” — William Tecumseh Sherman
- “War is the ultimate failure of mankind.” — Bertrand Russell
- “War is the symptom, not the disease.” — Roger Waters
- “War is the science of destruction.” — John Abbott
- “War is the worst form of human behavior.” — A. J. Muste
- “War is the proof of human folly.” — Ulysses S. Grant
- “War is the greatest failure of mankind.” — George S. Patton
- “War is the ultimate expression of the failure of man.” — Robert McNamara
- “War is the mark of the failure of civilization.” — Ulysses S. Grant
- “War is the failure of human wisdom.” — Ernest Hemingway
- “War is the supreme failure of the human race.” — Norman Cousins
- “War is the triumph of evil over good.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “War is the ultimate failure of human imagination.” — Albert Einstein
- “War is the final failure of human hope.” — Henry Kissinger
- “War is the suicide of civilization.” — Arnold Toynbee
- “War is the absence of humanity.” — Stephen King
- “War is the destroyer of worlds.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer
These quotes span centuries and come from a variety of perspectives, reflecting the complex and often tragic nature of war.