Bad Quote by Graydon Carter

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

— Leo Tolstoy

“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of…

— Leo Tolstoy

War is politics by other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

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

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

— Jayne Mansfield

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to…

— John C. Calhoun

“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our…

— Leo Tolstoy

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

— Saxby Chambliss

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign…

— Ernest Becker

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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