Claims Quote by Maude Royden

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

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this…

— Martin Van Creveld

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

— Nellie L. McClung

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political…

— Mao Zedong

War can protect; it cannot create.

— Alfred North Whitehead

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

— Charles Sumner

War is an abstraction.

— Bruce Jackson

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

— Marianne Moore

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

— Carl von Clausewitz