Ancient Quote by Arthur Helps

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the…

— William Cowper

War is a trade of kings.

— John Dryden

War is the trade of kings.

— John Dryden

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

— William Cowper

War is a specific product of civilization.

— Lewis Mumford

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a…

— John Boyd Orr

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external…

— Edmund Burke

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

— Charles Caleb Colton

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or…

— Arthur Koestler

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

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.

— Ramman Kenoun