Born Quote by Anne Waldman

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

— Vladimir Lenin

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease…

— Oscar Wilde

“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It…

— Chris Hedges

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

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and…

— Vladimir Lenin

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.

— Amos Oz

However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers,…

— George Santayana

“War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for…

— Donna Tartt