45 Quotes About War to Promote a Peaceful and Safe World

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - War has been a part of human history for many years. Many people have shared their thoughts and feelings about war, giving us powerful quotes about war. These quotes help us understand the impact of conflict and the need for peace.

War brings great suffering to many people. Families are torn apart, and lives are lost. The quotes about war remind us of these harsh realities. They teach us that peace is important and that we should always try to find ways to solve problems without fighting.

In this article, we will share some of the most powerful quotes about war from various sources, Sunday (10/11/2024). These quotes will remind us to always focus to spread peace and make this world safer for everyone.

1. "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." - Herodotus

2. "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." - Bertrand Russell

3. "We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. "War is the ultimate tool of politics." - R. Buckminster Fuller

5. "All war represents a failure of diplomacy." - Tony Benn

6. "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." - Howard Zinn

7. "If we don't end war, war will end us." - H. G. Wells

8. "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die." - Herbert Hoover

9. "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato

10. "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die." - Jean-Paul Sartre

11. "War is a defeat for humanity." - Pope John Paul II

12. "War is the only game in which both sides lose." - Walter Scott

13. "War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times." - Howard Zinn

14. "War is the business of barbarians." - Napoleon Bonaparte

15. "War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game." - Thomas Paine

1. "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. "Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice." - Tawakkol Karman

3. "Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war." - Albert Einstein

4. "When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

5. "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

6. "There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it." - Havelock Ellis

7. "All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones." - Benjamin Franklin

8. "We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter

9. "The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." - Lyndon B. Johnson

10. "Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?" - Mahatma Gandhi

11. "There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending." - Abraham Lincoln

12. "I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

13. "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." - Peter Ustinov

14. "Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war." - Otto von Bismarck

15. "War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it." - Martin Luther

1. "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." - Ronald Reagan

2. "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein

3. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. "It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." - Nelson Mandela

6. "Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it." - Anne O'Hare McCormick

7. "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter

8. "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." - Albert Einstein

9. "War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead." - Ken Gillespie

10. "Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him." - Baudouin of Belgium

11. "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse." - John Stuart Mill

12. "Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?" - Blaise Pascal

13. "War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

14. "There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

15. "There was never a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin