Consequence Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

— Percival Lowell

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers,…

— George Santayana

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the…

— Ferdinand Foch

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

— Gary Paulsen

War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they…

— Bell Hooks

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 has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something…

— Steven Erikson

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

— Anonymous

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant