Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
War
Laws are silent in times of war.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?
-Eve Merriam
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
-Benjamin Franklin
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
-Jeane Kirkpatrick
Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions.
-Adolf Hitler
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
-Plato
War would end if the dead could return.
-Stanley Baldwin
