Mark Twain Quotes

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

One war only breeds another.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

One would think that man would run out of wars.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

War is the trade of Kings.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.