War-related quotes

[Atomium]

Post striking war-related quotes here.


All wars are fought for money.
- Socrates

It takes twenty years of peace to raise a man, and only twenty seconds of war to kill him.
- King Bouduain of Belgium

[Contrary1]

1. Mine is my signature

"War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it."
-Desiderius Erasmus

[SteppingRazor]

2. Some of my favorites:

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
-- Ghandi

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. "
-- Thomas Mann

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
-- Dwight Eisenhower

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
-- Plato

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake"
-- Jeanette Rankin