Beneath the surface Quote by Anonymous

“War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.”

— Kristina McMorris

War is a contagion.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

— George Orwell

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

— Victor Davis Hanson

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions…

— Ruth Benedict

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.

— Anonymous

War is created by ..........

— Vikrant Parsai

War is an abstraction.

— Bruce Jackson

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

— J. Stalin

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

— George W. Bush

War is science of destruction.

— John Stevens Cabot Abbott