War Quote by Thomas Jefferson

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

— Barbara Tuchman

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives…

— Jacque Fresco

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

— Dennis Weaver

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

— Charles Sumner

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

— Eugene McCarthy

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

— Jon Lee Anderson

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

— George Orwell

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with…

— Howard Zinn

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

— Harry Patch

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical…

— Susan Sontag

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing…

— Thomas Paine