Quotes about War
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
— Golda Meir
And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
— William James
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
— David Livingstone Smith
Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.
— David Livingstone Smith
Automatically thinking 'everything that happens is God's will' is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn't fighting the Father's will when He raised the dead.
— Bill Johnson
God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.
— George W. Bush
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
— Abraham Lincoln
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
— Elie Wiesel
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
— Rick Warren
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
— CS Lewis
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer