Folly Quote by James Madison

One definition of the wicked is that they will resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve their ends. Therefore, if those who oppose…

— George Friedman

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply…

— William Ellery Channing

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

— Errol Morris

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change…

— Margaret Deland

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible,…

— Errol Morris

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it…

— Immanuel Kant

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives…

— Jacque Fresco

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

— Bela Kiraly

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

— Marianne Moore

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

— M. E. W. Sherwood