Futility Quote by Nick Harkaway

“Certainly war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person's feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed…

— Markus Zusak

“I needed very much to continue to believe in the goodness of humanity, because war is terrifying. And terrified people make choices they’d never…

— April White

“...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no…

— Anne Fortier

“I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, the less clear…

— Lemony Snicket

“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: the government.”

— Jane Mayer

“I imagine all wars look the same to those who die in them.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And, when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were…

— John Limon

“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Someone had to show them there was more to life than constant war, that was my mission.”

— R. Quejas-Risdon

“But in a world of fixed size, with no way to get more territory without taking it from a neighbor, there was always a…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.”

— Sherwood Smith

“He reflected that, from a distance, the world might conceivably look to be at peace, a state of affairs that always ends in war,…

— Terry Pratchett