George Santayana Quotes

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.

War is a defeat for humanity.

Even when you win a war, you cannot forget that you have lost a generation.

'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.