Crafty Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude who creates…

— Sam Hamill

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

— Immanuel Kant

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

— Smedley Butler

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as…

— Kirby Page

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

— Gilbert Parker

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal…

— George Orwell

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, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and…

— Robert Southey

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

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

— Benjamin Franklin

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

— Nevil Shute