T. S. Eliot Quotes

What’s so civil about war anyway?

True wars are never won.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

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

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

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.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

Violence and war lead only to death.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

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.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.