Antiwar Quote by Frank Herbert

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions…

— Ruth Benedict

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 fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might…

— George Orwell

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of…

— George Orwell

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

— George Orwell

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