Available Quote by Hjalmar Branting

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language…

— James Branch Cabell

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place…

— Scott Spencer

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

— Anne Michaels

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable…

— Albert Einstein

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world…

— Robert Graves

“If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace,…

— Eden Phillpotts

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a…

— Herman Kahn

We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The drama came…

— Gulzar

'War of the Worlds' was a goof delivered as news bulletins. It was the beginning of an erosion that now has us in trouble.…

— John de Lancie

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the…

— Learned Hand