Beast Quote by William Ellery Channing

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

— George Orwell

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

— Immanuel Kant

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

— McGeorge Bundy

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

— Richard Engel

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

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

— Jaron Lanier

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change…

— Margaret Deland

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and…

— Robert Southey

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

— Brian Jacques