Birth Quote by Mathilde Blind

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

You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards…

— R. Scott Bakker

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

— Horace

War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning…

— Moncure D. Conway

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking…

— Anonymous

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.

— Penelope Lively

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is…

— Jonathan Edwards

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

— Frank Herbert

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate--…

— Herman Melville

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose…

— George Bernard Shaw

The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

— William Shakespeare

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

— M. E. W. Sherwood