Oscar Wilde Quotes

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

War is the science of destruction.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is not a thing one wants.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

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

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

War is an abstraction.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

War is a perversion of sex.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

War is a last and terrible defense of even a righteous cause, and sets at defiance all the ordinary laws and customs of society.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.