On War and Peace
War is sweet to those who have no experience in it.
—Pindar, 446 BC
[War] 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, 2002
War is a kind of superstition; the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of
Man.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819
The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the
only animal that deals with this atrocity of atrocities, War.
—Mark Twain, 1896
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1942
A hospital alone shows what war is, because its collection of bodies carries the true
meaning of war.
—Erich Maria Remarque, 1929
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1788
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1917
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers
and to the sound of trumpets.
—Voltaire, 1771
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War is sweet to those who have no experience in it.
—Pindar, 446 BC
[War] 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, 2002
War is a kind of superstition; the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of
Man.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819
The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the
only animal that deals with this atrocity of atrocities, War.
—Mark Twain, 1896
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1942
A hospital alone shows what war is, because its collection of bodies carries the true
meaning of war.
—Erich Maria Remarque, 1929
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1788
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1917
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers
and to the sound of trumpets.
—Voltaire, 1771
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
K. K. Likharev (ed.), Essential Quotes for Scientists and Engineers,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63332-5_19
183