Age Quote by Charles Sumner

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

— Charles Sumner

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us…

— Robert E. Lee

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

— David Starr Jordan

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

— John Donne

You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards…

— R. Scott Bakker

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of…

— William Ellery Channing

For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss…

— Le Ly Hayslip

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

— Cardinal Richelieu

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

— Anonymous

“Throughout history, the word "war" has meant one thing to human beings: loss of life. The word "peace" has always meant security and love…

— A.H. Metwally

War creates peace like hate creates love.

— David L. Wilson

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ...…

— Alice Walker