All war is deception.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small
“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
All wars are popular for the first thirty days.
It has long been noted that some conquerors prefer enemies as fierce as tigers and brave as eagles, for only then can they savor the true joy of victory.
Either war is obsolete or men are.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
In case you haven’t noticed, we…dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send ’em anywhere. Make ’em do anything. Piece of cake.
The more individuals capable of watching the world theater calmly and critically, the less danger of monumental mass stupidities – first of all, wars.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E. Lee - U.S. Army Officer and General of the Confederate Forces
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.
