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War Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of…
- [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
- War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
- How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,…
- The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we…
- The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high…
- Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
- You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a…
- The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
- The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting…
- The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
- As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood.…
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