Cruelty Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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 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

It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of…

— Thucydides

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

— George Orwell

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to…

— George Washington

As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as…

— Samuel Johnson

“War that is waged for power or dominion over other human beings obscures the inevitable truth that we are all members of one family,…

— John Lewis

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human…

— Robert Fisk

“It is not enough to say, 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage…

— James Connolly