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War Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no…
- All progress means war with society.
- War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and…
- Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an…
- A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
- The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
- We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
- There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in…
- Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
- War does not decide who is right but who is left.
- If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the…
- The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any of the other scapegoats which…
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood