Cynthia Ozick Quotes

There are worse things than war.

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

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

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

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

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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

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.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

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

Violence and war lead only to death.

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

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

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.

O war! thou son of Hell!

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

War among men defiles this world.