T. S. Eliot Quotes

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

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

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

There's no war that will end all wars.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

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