Blood Quote by William Dean Howells

There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought…

— Charles Bukowski

I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good guys beginning…

— Howard Zinn

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam,…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“If wars were declared by love, there would be no tears of sorrow, only tears of joy.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a…

— John Boyd Orr

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

— George Washington

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“When I think of war, I see blood. Pain and suffering. Nothing good comes from war. But there is good. There will be an…

— Hafsah Laziaf

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

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

— Theodore Roosevelt

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing…

— John Stuart Mill