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War Quotes

War, remembered and reckoned with.

This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

Quotes by Jeff Miller

In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil...

Quotes by Jeff Goodell

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Quotes by Jeff Greene

When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat...

Quotes by Jeff Greenfield

I can't discuss the possibility of the U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war without also talking about Benghazi.

Quotes by Jeff Duncan

The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.

Quotes by Jeff Duncan

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist...

Quotes by Jeff Gannon

It's an important fact of life, war.

Quotes by Jeff Goldblum

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

Quotes by Jeannette Rankin

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this page reference literature about war?
Yes. One quote reflects on reading novels that portrayed a world with a strong social fabric, noting: "People knew each other in 'War and Peace.'" It's a literary angle on the topic, rather than a historical or personal one. For more big-idea quotes, see Great quotes.
Is there a quote about the 1962 India-China border war?
Yes. One quote states plainly: "China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that." It's a direct historical reference within the quote itself. Browse History quotes for more quotes rooted in real events.
Does this collection touch on the aftermath of World War I?
Yes. One quote describes how the end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil, noting that the reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation. It's a sober historical observation.
Is there a quote that uses a chess metaphor to describe the war?
Yes - one quote compares the situation for Germany to an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary, adding that the loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under those conditions. It's a vivid, strategic way of describing an outcome that felt inevitable. For more thought-provoking metaphors, see Life quotes.
What kinds of war-related quotes does this page bring together?
A mix of literary reflection, direct historical fact, and vivid metaphor - from a mention of 'War and Peace,' to the 1962 India-China border war, to World War I's aftermath in Germany, to a chess-based description of a war's inevitable loss. For more first-person reflections, see Me quotes.

Two entries look at Germany's condition in the aftermath of its 1918 defeat, one describing the disillusionment of a younger generation and the other comparing the loss to an inevitable endgame in chess. For more reflective lines, see Great or Life.