War Quotes

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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay… — Abraham Flexner
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30… — Bertrand Russell
Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but… — David Starr Jordan
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their… — Winston Churchill
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is… — Albert Einstein
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed… — Abraham Flexner
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men.… — Jacob Bronowski
The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast… — John Burroughs
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny. — John F. Kennedy
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them. — Bernard Baruch
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the… — George Amos Dorsey
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming… — Leslie Groves
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but… — Aldous Huxley
We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. — George Wald
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far. — Michel de Montaigne

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