Boyish Quote by Percival Lowell

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

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

— Ru Freeman

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It…

— Chris Hedges

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“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

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers,…

— George Santayana

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external…

— Edmund Burke

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our…

— John Fowles