Robert E. Lee Quotes

It's an important fact of life, war.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

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

War is a contagion.

War is not an academic exercise.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

What is more immoral than war?

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Nothing can justify war.

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

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

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

War is not a thing one wants.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

War remains the decisive human failure.