War Quote by Jon Lee Anderson

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

— Charles Sumner

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external…

— Edmund Burke

War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.

— Karl Von Clausewitz

War is merely a continuation of politics,

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

— A. A. Milne

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with…

— Howard Zinn

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

— Alexander Hamilton

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

— Anonymous

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.

— Anonymous

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

— George Orwell

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live…

— Zainab Salbi