Children Quote by Gary Paulsen

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

— Corra May Harris

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

— Immanuel Kant

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

— Bertrand Russell

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change…

— Margaret Deland

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Pope Francis

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our…

— John Fowles

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

— Elie Wiesel

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 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