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0 / 30 Fotos
Barack Obama
- "I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
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1 / 30 Fotos
Mahatma Gandhi
- "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
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2 / 30 Fotos
John F. Kennedy
- "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
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3 / 30 Fotos
Winston Churchill - "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
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4 / 30 Fotos
Oscar Wilde - "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
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5 / 30 Fotos
Ernest Hemingway
- "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
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6 / 30 Fotos
Malcolm X
- "Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down."
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7 / 30 Fotos
Thomas Edison
- "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
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8 / 30 Fotos
Martin Luther King Jr.
- "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
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9 / 30 Fotos
Ronald Reagan
- "History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
© Getty Images
10 / 30 Fotos
Albert Einstein
- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
© Getty Images
11 / 30 Fotos
Napoleon Bonaparte
- "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
© Getty Images
12 / 30 Fotos
Benjamin Franklin
- "There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
© Getty Images
13 / 30 Fotos
Henry Ford
- "Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard."
© Getty Images
14 / 30 Fotos
George Orwell
- "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
© Getty Images
15 / 30 Fotos
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
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16 / 30 Fotos
John Steinbeck
- "All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
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17 / 30 Fotos
Mao Zedong
- "We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war."
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18 / 30 Fotos
Mark Twain
- "God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
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19 / 30 Fotos
Haile Selassie
- "Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war."
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20 / 30 Fotos
Aristotle
- "It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
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21 / 30 Fotos
George S. Patton
- "A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
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22 / 30 Fotos
Jimmy Carter - "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
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23 / 30 Fotos
Margaret Atwood
- "War is what happens when language fails."
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24 / 30 Fotos
Sun Tzu
- "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
© Getty Images
25 / 30 Fotos
Jean-Paul Sartre
- "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
© Getty Images
26 / 30 Fotos
G.K. Chesterton
- "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
© Getty Images
27 / 30 Fotos
Stephen King
- "Fighting for peace, is like f*****g for chastity."
© Getty Images
28 / 30 Fotos
George Santayana
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Sources: (Goodreads) (BrainyQuote) (Notable Quotes) See also: The stupidest excuses for war in history
© Getty Images
29 / 30 Fotos
© Getty Images
0 / 30 Fotos
Barack Obama
- "I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
© Getty Images
1 / 30 Fotos
Mahatma Gandhi
- "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
© Getty Images
2 / 30 Fotos
John F. Kennedy
- "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
© Getty Images
3 / 30 Fotos
Winston Churchill - "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
© Getty Images
4 / 30 Fotos
Oscar Wilde - "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
© Public Domain
5 / 30 Fotos
Ernest Hemingway
- "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
© Getty Images
6 / 30 Fotos
Malcolm X
- "Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down."
© Getty Images
7 / 30 Fotos
Thomas Edison
- "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
© Getty Images
8 / 30 Fotos
Martin Luther King Jr.
- "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
© Getty Images
9 / 30 Fotos
Ronald Reagan
- "History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
© Getty Images
10 / 30 Fotos
Albert Einstein
- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
© Getty Images
11 / 30 Fotos
Napoleon Bonaparte
- "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
© Getty Images
12 / 30 Fotos
Benjamin Franklin
- "There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
© Getty Images
13 / 30 Fotos
Henry Ford
- "Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard."
© Getty Images
14 / 30 Fotos
George Orwell
- "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
© Getty Images
15 / 30 Fotos
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
© Getty Images
16 / 30 Fotos
John Steinbeck
- "All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
© Getty Images
17 / 30 Fotos
Mao Zedong
- "We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war."
© Getty Images
18 / 30 Fotos
Mark Twain
- "God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
© Getty Images
19 / 30 Fotos
Haile Selassie
- "Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war."
© Getty Images
20 / 30 Fotos
Aristotle
- "It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
© Getty Images
21 / 30 Fotos
George S. Patton
- "A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
© Getty Images
22 / 30 Fotos
Jimmy Carter - "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
© Getty Images
23 / 30 Fotos
Margaret Atwood
- "War is what happens when language fails."
© Getty Images
24 / 30 Fotos
Sun Tzu
- "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
© Getty Images
25 / 30 Fotos
Jean-Paul Sartre
- "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
© Getty Images
26 / 30 Fotos
G.K. Chesterton
- "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
© Getty Images
27 / 30 Fotos
Stephen King
- "Fighting for peace, is like f*****g for chastity."
© Getty Images
28 / 30 Fotos
George Santayana
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Sources: (Goodreads) (BrainyQuote) (Notable Quotes) See also: The stupidest excuses for war in history
© Getty Images
29 / 30 Fotos
Famous quotes on war
From authors to politicians
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War is an incredibly impactful event. It can bring out the worst and the best in humans, but the consequences of conflict are always devastating. Throughout history, many famous figures have addressed war, from different angles and for different reasons. In this gallery, we revisit some of the world's most famous quotes on war.
Browse through and read the thought-provoking words on war expressed by these influential individuals.
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