“In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.”
War is the failure of every other option. These quotes do not glorify conflict — they examine its causes, costs, and consequences through the eyes of soldiers, leaders, pacifists, and survivors who understand what is really at stake.
“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
“In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.”
“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”
“My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.”
“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.”
“I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.”
“All war is deception.”
“War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.”
“You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.”
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
“It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.”
“I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.”