John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

War is a profane thing.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is hell.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

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

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..

There are worse things than war.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

War is not a thing one wants.