David Hume Quotes

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

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

War is not a thing one wants.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

War is in the eyes.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War is an abstraction.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

I am fed up with war and the clamor for war.

… a war of extermination.

Wars ruin armies.

And this I hate—not men, nor flag nor race, But only War with its wild, grinning face.

War nourishes war.

Our permanent enemy is the noted bellicosity of human nature.... The plain truth is that people want war.... It is a sacrament. Society would rot, they think, without the mystical blood-payment.

Of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

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.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.