Description Quote by John McCain

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

— John McCain

War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War…

— John McCain

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose…

— Alexander Cockburn

All war is deception.

— Sun Tzu

War is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.…

— Samuel Johnson

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

— Jayne Mansfield

All war is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to…

— Susan Sontag

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people…

— George Orwell

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the…

— John Dos Passos

“All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”). Definition of deception: “The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things…

— Anonymous