Thomas Hobbes Quotes

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

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

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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

Stored today in the arsenals of the most enlightened Christian nations are enough bullets to kill every man, woman and child on earth.

War is the science of destruction.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

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

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

A hospital alone shows what war is.

It's an important fact of life, war.

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 not a thing one wants.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.