Alas Quote by Oriana Fallaci

War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man,…

— Patrick Ness

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its…

— H. L. Mencken

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings,…

— George Grosz

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it.…

— Ford Madox Ford

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

— Alexander Berkman

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out…

— Neil Lowe

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

— Thomas de Quincey

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to…

— Charles de Gaulle

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant