Able Quote by Michael Hastings

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

— Margaret MacMillan

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

— Sharon Stone

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

— Hans von Seeckt

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

— Ru Freeman

I don't think war is inevitable. I maintain that.

— Lloyd Austin

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a…

— William James

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without…

— Francesca Lia Block

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

— Bashar al-Assad

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

— George Orwell

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

— Mignon McLaughlin

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

— Saxby Chambliss