Loss Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

— David Starr Jordan

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

— Barbara Kingsolver

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty…

— C. E. M. Joad

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out…

— Neil Lowe

Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

— Starhawk

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes…

— Nellie L. McClung

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to…

— Charles de Gaulle

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply…

— William Ellery Channing

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick