Beastly Quote by Storm Jameson

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ...…

— Alice Walker

War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something…

— Steven Erikson

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply…

— Howard Zinn

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to…

— John C. Calhoun

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

— George Orwell

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

— Jayne Mansfield

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...…

— Howard Zinn

War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other…

— Cindy Sheehan

War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and…

— Marilyn Ferguson

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

— Nellie L. McClung