Brock Chisholm Quotes

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

True wars are never won.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.