Country Quote by Adrienne Rich

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

— Adrienne Rich

War is an admission of failure

— K.J. Parker

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

— Jacques Chirac

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

— Martin Firrell

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives…

— Jacque Fresco

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human…

— Robert Fisk

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our…

— John Fowles

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the…

— Karl Kraus

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that…

— Alexander Berkman

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

— Tony Benn