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"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born." »Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
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"wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." »John Knowles
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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." »William Westmoreland
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"For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class." »Hans Konig
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"So long as there are men there will be wars." »Albert Einstein
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"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." »Salvador Dali
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"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." »George McGovern
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"People don't start wars, governments do." »Ronald Reagan
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"History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen." »Enoch Powell
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"Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves." »J. B. Priestley
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"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore." »Golda Meir
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"wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies." »W. L. George
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"wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies." »W.L. George
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"wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." »Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
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"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read." »Karl Kraus
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"Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice." »Marcel Ayme
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"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago." »Steve Jobs
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"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms." »Jiddu Krishnamurti
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"wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace." »U Thant
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"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." »Carl Rowen
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"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed." »Unknown
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"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war." »Barack Obama
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"Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way." »Gurdjieff
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"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing an anti-war book?… I say, "why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too." »Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5
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"Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars." »John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
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"What we need is Star Peace and not Star wars." »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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"One main reason the US has been able to prevent its currency and economy from collapsing, despite the latest wars, huge debt and massive currency printing, is because the dollar is the de-facto standard for international trade and reserve currency." »Med Jones
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