Clay Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

“War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love…

— Immanuel Kant

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

“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 provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty…

— C. E. M. Joad

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 not human nature. It is a habit.

— Gregg Braden

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