Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
A. J. P. Taylor
Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
Albert Einstein
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Alfred Adler
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
Bertrand Russell
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Charles Evans Hughes