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Quotations about War  (By Enkidu (37) on 03/26/2005)

Pithy commentary on the "most successful of our cultural institutions" by writers, thinkers, and aphorists of the last couple thousand years. 5 = great
 
 
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"Since barbarism has its pleasures, it naturally has its apologists." George Santayana, 1905 (3)  5.00 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"We have met the enemy, and not only is he ours, he is us." Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo (2)  5.00 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil." - George Orwell (2)  5.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." Bertrand Russell (1)  5.00 (1)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy." Heinz Guderian (attrib) (6)  4.75 (8)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"The supreme excellence is not victory in battle; it consists in defeating your enemies without even fighting them." Sun Tzu, The Art of War (6)  4.60 (10)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here...This is the War Room!" Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove (1964) (3)  4.50 (6)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950 (0)  4.50 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"The first casualty when war comes is truth." Phillip Knightley, 1975 (1)  4.50 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction was wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty?" Gandhi, 1948 (1)  4.50 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"In war there is no prize for the runner-up." General Omar Bradley (2)  4.40 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"War is hell." William Tecumseh Sherman (3)  4.33 (6)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Cogito ergo boom." Susan Sontag (1)  4.33 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Either war is obsolete, or men are." R. Buckminster Fuller, 1966 (1)  4.25 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
General to the other officers: "On the other hand, gentlemen, what if we gave a war and EVERYBODY came?" Gary Larson, the Far Side (2)  4.25 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason." Ernest Hemingway (1)  4.20 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee (2)  4.20 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won." Duke of Wellington (4)  4.20 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting." Ambrose Bierce (3)  4.20 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein (5)  4.14 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
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