There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Gertrude Stein

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
Gertrude Stein

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Colin Powell

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Lewis Mumford

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Harry S. Truman

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
Alfred Adler

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Alfred Adler

War is a defeat for humanity.
Pope John Paul II

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Herodotus

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. Lee

This war is not about slavery.
Robert E. Lee