Act Quote by William Kirby

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

— Lawrence S. Wittner

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

— Corra May Harris

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“War is nothing more than organized insanity. That's why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don't, we won't live…

— R.G. Risch

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

— Jayne Mansfield

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.

— Margaret MacMillan

War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they…

— H. R. McMaster

“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to…

— Susan Sontag

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely…

— John Updike

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

— Alfred Hermann Fried

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an…

— Arthur Henderson

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

— Eugene McCarthy