Individual Quote by Amos Oz

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

— Oswald Spengler

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

— Dennis Weaver

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

— Nancy Gibbs

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

— A. A. Milne

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

— Bertrand Russell

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

— George Washington

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

— Andrew Jackson

The nature of war is constant change.

— Sun Tzu

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

— Gary Paulsen