Action Quote by Kenneth Clark

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking…

— Thomas Paine

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

— Abba Eban

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

— Natalie Babbitt

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

— Anonymous

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war,…

— Bashar al-Assad

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

— P. D. James

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

— John McCain

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

— Judith Butler

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

— Don DeLillo