Country Quote by James Vila Blake

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there…

— Aberjhani

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time,…

— John Woolman

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed…

— Arthur Henderson

I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”

— Ruta Sepetys

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the…

— David Mamet

“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“There were no winners during times of war. All suffered.”

— Hunting Prince Dracula, Kerri Maniscalco

“That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure.”

— David McDonald

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

— Joshua Ferris