Horror Of War Quotes

• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, War, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Thinking, Agreement

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• The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

  Anna Freud

  Mother, War, Loss

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• The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Inspire, Battle

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

  Agatha Christie

  Peace, War, Winning

  Autobiography (1977) pt. 10

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• I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Loss, Gains

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

  Havelock Ellis

  Peace, War, Achieve

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

  Daniel Inouye

  Hate, War, Horror

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Military, War

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Benefits, Horror

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.14, Algora Publishing

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• You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

  Richard Price

  War, Lying, Writing

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, War, Battle

  Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Evil, Nuclear Missiles

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• Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Home, Differences

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Prejudice, Horror

  Speech at St Bride's church, www.theguardian.com. November 2010.

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• The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Anger, Achievement, Society

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Opinion

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• Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first to discover the horrors of war.

  Mona Charen

  Baby, Sex, War

  Mona Charen (2003). “Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First”, p.156, Regnery Publishing

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• Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Horror

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• At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

  Paul Robeson

  War, Ideas, Majority

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