Ernest Hemingway Quotes

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

Those who make war unjustly shall perish

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.

War is a crime perpetrated by hearts hardened like weapons

Nothing can justify war.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

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

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

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

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.

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

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

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.

We can easily defeat the armies of Mexico, slaughter them by thousands.... Is not Life miserable enough, comes not death soon enough without resort to the hideous enginery of War? People of the U.S.! Your rulers are precipitating you into a fathomless abyss of crime and calamity! Why sleep you thoughtless on its verge, as though this was not your business?