War And Death Quotes by Plato, George Santayana, Dawn Powell, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Gilbert K. Chesterton, William Tecumseh Sherman and many others.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
War’s tragedy is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
We need more leaders among our gente – more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting into “war” and “death” and put it into life and true justice.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.
