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04/11/2003 Archived Entry: "War Is Hell"

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 (1890 - 1976), Autobiography (1977)

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) (attributed)

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

"If More people gave up, there would be a lot less war"
The cat in Stuart Little 2

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Second World War (1948)

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky
Solomon Short

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Abbie Hoffman

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

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! Alexander Blok

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time. Ian Hay

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came? Leslie Parrish-Bach

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde