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War Quotes by H.G. Wells
- We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands…
- We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.
- This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live…
- The War That Will End War.
- We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the…
- Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear…
- So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky…
- No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at…
- You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War…
- Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as…
- The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such…
- War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of…
- Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
- If we don't end war, war will end us.
- A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much…
- It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
- Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one…
- This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
- States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs...
- Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to…
- It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.
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