Against war Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

— U Thant

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

— Muriel Lester

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

— Friedrich Schiller

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so

— Anonymous

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

— Mark Lawrence

“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be…

— Guy Sajer

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

— John Milton

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

— Neville Chamberlain

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero