Friedrich Schiller Quotes

The principal cause of war is war itself.

The people, ever greedy for war, till they suffer by it …

Big armies have always brought, not peace, but war which has ended in a hate that in due course brings another war.

War is the most powerful narcotic ever invented by humankind. The more you seek it out the more powerful it becomes.

There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

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

In violence, we forget who we are.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

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.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

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 the business of barbarians.

Killing is the payoff of war.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

War is in the eyes.

War is at its best barbarism.

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 saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.