Peace Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out…

— Neil Lowe

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 the greatest failure of mankind.

— Aaron Huey

“War is the worst thing that can happen to us, it is worse than a disease; it set our hearts on fire and burns…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

— Abraham Lincoln

“We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.”

— Bernard Kouchner

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption…

— Germaine Greer

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Immanuel Kant

“Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.”

— Lesslie Newbigin

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

— Sophocles