War is what happens when language fails.
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Margaret Atwood
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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Ernest Hemingway
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Leo Tolstoy
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Tacitus
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
A bad peace is worse than war.
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of...