Behavior Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

— George Washington

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on…

— Gertrude Stein

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our…

— John Fowles

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

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

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

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal…

— George Orwell

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

— Alexander Hamilton

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

— Alfred Hermann Fried

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of…

— Smedley Butler