War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. — Lois McMaster Bujold
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. — Jean Giraudoux
It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. — Smedley Butler
War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. — Douglas William Jerrold
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable. — Dennis Weaver
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in afghanistan and would go to war in iraq. — Douglas Hurd
But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war. — Douglas Hurd
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an — Stanley Crouch
War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. — Clare Short
The liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. — Clare Short
The middle east is more angry than ever. I’m afraid that the sort of deceit on the route — Clare Short
Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees. — Curt Siodmak
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: — Arthur Henderson