Books Quote by Gertrude Stein

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ...…

— Alice Walker

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

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

War to me is very much like sex. You can develop a theory that says sex is primarily for the exchange of genetic material,…

— George Friedman

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

— Sebastian Junger

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

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life.…

— Richard Flanagan

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.

— Ramman Kenoun

“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 just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of…

— Smedley Butler

War is like love, it always finds a way.

— Bertolt Brecht