"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." - Wilfred OwenTweet
"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman." - George SantayanaTweet
"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice." - Harry BrowneTweet
"Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown." - Thomas HardyTweet
"American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc." - Katherine DunnTweet
"It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad." - Julie BowenTweet
"When you go to war, both sides lose totally." - Yoko OnoTweet
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." - George OrwellTweet
"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." - Jefferson DavisTweet
"Peace is produced by war." - Pierre CorneilleTweet