Quotes about War

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

The spirits of hell are at war against the anointing, for without the anointing mankind is no threat to their dominion.

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.

The fear-filled cannot love deeply. Love is risky. They cannot give to the poor. Benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams sputter and fall from the sky? The worship of safety emasculates greatness. No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear.

No wonder Chelsea's memory had become her greatest weapon, a sword she wielded, wounding others to protect herself. For decades she had waged this war, but at what cost? Now she stood alone on the battlefield, bleeding and bruised. There were no victors in this war, and Chelsea counted herself among the casualties.

Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace?

I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind. Romans 7:23

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.