John McCain Quotes

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

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

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

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

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

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

True wars are never won.

Violence and war lead only to death.

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

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

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

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.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

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

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

There are worse things than war.