Gerald Scarfe Quotes

I don't like wars. Any wars.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

War is not a thing one wants.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

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

War is the business of barbarians.

War is an abstraction.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

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 had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

War is the science of destruction.

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

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

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

People always make war when they say they love peace.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

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

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.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.