Establishment Quote by Alan Bennett

When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

— Frederic C. Howe

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ...…

— Alice Walker

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

— Jayne Mansfield

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

— Robert E. Lee

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a…

— Ulysses S. Grant

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

— Judith Butler

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more…

— Bill Moyers

No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible looking at…

— Matt Shea

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

— Robert E. Lee

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

— Lawrence S. Wittner

To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I…

— Robert Byrd