Exposing Quote by Karl Kautsky

War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a…

— Barbara Holland

War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces

— John Reed

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

— Anonymous

“It existed almost by oversight, “far removed from reality,” as one of the “Kandy Kids” wrote, “where everyone had an academic interest in the…

— Bob Spitz

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman…

— Boris Pasternak

“It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the sharp and…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to…

— Ulrich Beck

“Housman would not have appealed so deeply to the people who were young in 1920 if it had not been for another strain in…

— George Orwell

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development…

— Cordell Hull

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

— John McCain

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein