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| Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. | | Eric Hoffer | |
| People always make war when they say they love peace | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
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| The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. | | J. Robert Oppenheimer | |
| The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place | | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure | | Aristotle | |
| The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own | | Aldous Huxley | |
| The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory. | | Winston Churchill | |
| The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. | | George S. Patton | |
| The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace | | George Washington | |
| The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence | | Bertrand Russell | |
| The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. | | Henry Kissinger | |
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| There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
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| Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword | | Bible | |
