Desiderius Erasmus Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  War, People, Evil

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.313, University of Toronto Press

• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Peace, Military, War

• There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more easily. For in times of peace the authority of the assembly, the dignity of the magistrates, the force of the laws stand in the way to some extent of the ruler doing what he likes. But once war is declared then the whole business of state is subject to the will of a few ... They demand as much money as they like. Why say more?

  Desiderius Erasmus

  War, Mean, Exercise

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.350, University of Toronto Press

• The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Peace, Military, War

  "Adagia". Book by Desiderius Erasmus, 1500.

• War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sweet, Peace, War

• Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Christian, War, Fighting

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.160, University of Toronto Press

• Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

  Desiderius Erasmus

  War, Unjust

• Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  War, Lovely, Knows

• War is delightful for those who don't know it

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Military, War, Delightful

• War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sweet, Peace, War

  Desiderius Erasmus (1962). “Handbook of the Militant Christian”

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