Barriers Quote by Joanna Baillie

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

— Thomas Paine

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for…

— Anonymous

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

— Christopher Paolini

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of…

— Walter Bagehot

“it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain…

— Augustine of Hippo

War is the supreme form of prestige.

— Simone Weil

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

— John Cory

“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin