Ludwig von Mises Quotes

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.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

There are worse things than war.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

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

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War dehumanizes everyone.

War remains the decisive human failure.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

War is a defeat for humanity.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Nothing is gained by military occupation. All occupations are failures.

Those who make war unjustly shall perish

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

I cannot consent to the bloody consequence of so silly a contest about so silly an object, conducted in the silliest manner … from which we are likely to derive nothing but poverty, disgrace, defeat, and ruin.

'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.

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