Conscience Quote by Leo Tolstoy

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

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change…

— Margaret Deland

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

— Alexander Berkman

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

— Saint Augustine

Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

“War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity.”

— John Connolly

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

— Jayne Mansfield

“There is no conscience in a real war.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our…

— Robert Greene