Dar Williams Quotes

War is the science of destruction.

War is not a thing one wants.

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.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

War is a contagion.

We are muddled into war.

War is an abstraction.

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.

Nations at war are wild beasts.

I'm reporting on a world at war.

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.

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

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 is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

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

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

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

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

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.

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