Expectations Quote by Karl Kraus

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the…

— Karl Kraus

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply…

— William Ellery Channing

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about…

— Adrienne Rich

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain…

— Edgar Ramirez

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

— Thornton Wilder

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption…

— Germaine Greer

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our…

— John Fowles

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate…

— Lewis H. Lapham

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

— Georges Clemenceau