 | "One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
- Agatha Christie
, Autobiography (1977). |
| "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein
. |
| "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
- Albert Einstein
, (attributed). |
| "War is not nice."
- Barbara Bush
. |
| "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
- Carl Sandburg
, The People, Yes (1936). |
| "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell
, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham". |
| "War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
- Georges Clemenceau
. |
| "War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."
- Georges Clemenceau
. |
| "The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council."
- Homer
, The Iliad. |
| "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
- Jeannette Rankin
. |