Conventions Quote by Aldous Huxley

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking…

— Thomas Paine

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold…

— Aldous Huxley

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain…

— Edgar Ramirez

“The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same fallible breed…

— Stan Goff

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

— Harry Patch

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

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

— Judith Butler

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people…

— George Orwell

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out…

— Neil Lowe

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change…

— Margaret Deland

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the…

— David Mamet