Action Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

— Alexander Hamilton

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes…

— Nellie L. McClung

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that…

— Alexander Berkman

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Margaret MacMillan

“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 means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

— Alexander Berkman

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

— Norman Cousins

War justifies everything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next…

— Wendell Berry

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge…

— William Broyles, Jr