Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

Wars are made to make debt.
Ezra Pound

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
Frederick M. Vinson

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U. Thant

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
Omar N. Bradley

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II

Wars have always started over religion.
Glenn Danzig

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
Richard Cobden

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Ludwig von Mises

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali

Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
Evan Thomas

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero