World War Quotes – Reflective Statements on Historical Events

"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

Mark Twain

"All through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance period the popes kept Italy in turmoil and bloodshed for their own family and territorial advantages, and they kept all Europe in turmoil, for two centuries after the Reformation,—in fact, just as long as they could,—in the wars of religion . . . Their whole policy is based on stirring up hatred and promoting conflicts from which they hope to draw worldly advantage . . . Popes and their Jesuitical agents have been and are the instigators of wars, and while the world is having real pain, Rome is having champagne."

Jeremiah J. Crowley

"Luxury destroys more efficiently than war."

Juvenal

"World Peace begins in the kitchen."

Vegane Weisheiten

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."

Eisenhower

"The only way to win World War III is to prevent it."

Eisenhower

"We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight."

John Lennon

"In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle."

Henry A. Wallace

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."

Peter Ustinov

"They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?"

Gore Vidal

"Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part."

Charles Wright Mills

"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."

Jimmy Carter

"We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far."

Jimmy Carter

"A soldier who starts to think is almost no longer a soldier."

Heinrich Böll

"The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us."

Robert A. Heinlein

"The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics."

Albert Schweitzer

"It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible."

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."

Robert A. Heinlein