War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.J.R.R. Tolkien
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.Hermann Hesse
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.George S. Patton
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.Steve Buyer
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.Xenophon
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.Eduardo Galeano
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.Ida Tarbell
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.Roger Waters
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.Dustin Hoffman
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.Saul Bellow
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.Lyndon B. Johnson
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.Herbert Read
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.Friedrich Nietzsche
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.Ernest Hemingway
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.Georges Clemenceau
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
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.Erich Maria Remarque
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.Otto von Bismarck