Awful Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.

— Amos Oz

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

— Abraham Lincoln

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

“War is a red haze punctuated by horror and death. It's a sequence of things that no human should ever have to know are…

— Mark Lawrence

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 just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

— Jon Lee Anderson

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

— Charles Frazier

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

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

— Robert E. Lee

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

— Judith Butler

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

— Ellen Glasgow