War Quote by George Orwell

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

— George Orwell

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

“War is essentially dehumanising'. 'It's trying to portray your enemy as less human than you are'.”

— Ken Burns

“Propaganda against war is itself a form of war propaganda.”

— Élie Halévy

“War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see…

— Robert Graff

“War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest…

— Anthony Ryan

“themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ……

— Doris Lessing

“War shows us who we are. It drags us to our deepest depths and reveals just what we would do to survive. Good and…

— Nina Levine

“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 is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.”

— Michelle Sagara West

“What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace.”

— H.L. Mencken