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| War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. | | Karl Kraus | |
| War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
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| War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull | | Mark Twain | |
| War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and state; and individuals are enemies only accidentally: not as men, nor even as citizens: but as soldiers; not as members of their country, but as its defenders | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. | | Anatole France | |
| War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble. | | John Dryden | |
| War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other | | Paul Valery | |
| War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization | | Omar Bradley | |
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| Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. | | George S. Patton | |
| We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets. | | Douglas Jerrold | |
| We make war that we may live in peace. | | Aristotle | |
| We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. | | Albert Einstein | |
| We will always strike first. We will always deliver the first blow. | | Adolf Hitler | |
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| When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
