Arthur Koestler Quotes

The history of mankind is a history of war.

War is the science of destruction.

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

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.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of 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.

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

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

War is an abstraction.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

Nations at war are wild beasts.

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

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.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

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

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 means fighting, and fighting means killing.

We are muddled into war.