Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
-Homer
"Iliad"
Quotations
War
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
-Bertrand Russell
Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.
-Sri Chinmoy "Sri Chinmoy"
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
-Plato
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
-Benjamin Franklin
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
-Harry Fosdick
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
-Albert Einstein
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
-Jasper Fforde
"The Eyre Affair"
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
