Absurdity Quote by Elie Wiesel

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

— Gary Paulsen

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

— Pope Francis

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely…

— John Updike

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

— George Friedman

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

— Winston Churchill

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

— Herodotus

I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our…

— Robert Greene

Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

— Frieda Lawrence

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

— Hisham Matar

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

— Ellen Glasgow

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic…

— Florence Nightingale