Causes Quote by Pearl S. Buck

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

— Margaret Atwood

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

— Martin Luther

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

— Martha Gellhorn

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

War is the symptom, not the disease.

— L M Heroux

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which…

— Philip Bobbitt

“The same tools that enable doctors to quickly identify and cure new illnesses may also enable armies and terrorists to engineer even more terrible…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

— Henri Barbusse

War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our…

— Judith Hand

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

— Jimmy Carter

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

— Peter C. Doherty