Inspirational Quotes on War

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society - shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”

“The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”

“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”

“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.”

“There are many unacceptable reasons for war. Imperialism. Financial gain. Religion. Family feuds. Racial arrogance. There are many unacceptable motives for war. But there is one time when war is condoned and used by God: wickedness.”

“To ask God to prohibit war, then, is to ask him to prohibit the consequence of human behavior. Something he has never been wont to do. As long as there is sin there will be war.”

“Soldiers that carry their lives in their hands, should carry the grace of God in their hearts.”

“I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.”

“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.”

“Have you no pity for him, our helpless son? Or me, and the destiny that weighs me down, your widow, now so soon? Yes, soon they will kill you off, all the Achaean forces massed for assault, and then bereft of you, better for me to sink beneath the earth. What other warmth, what comfort's left for me, once you have met your doom? Nothing but torment!”

“To you, sedition, violence and fighting are the breath of life. What if you are a great soldier - who made you so but God?”

“War is men's business; and this war is the business of every man in Ilium, myself above all.”

“Let us pin our faith in the almighty Zeus, who governs all mankind and the gods as well. Fight for your country - that is the best and only omen. But why should you, of all men, shirk from battle? Even if the rest of us are slaughtered wholesale by the argive ships, you need have no fear for your own safety - you are not the man to stand and fight it out. None the less, if you do shirk, or dissuade any of the others from fighting, I shall not hesitate to strike you with this spear and take your life.”

“Take my advice then, and set aside all thoughts of avenging your son. Many a finer and stronger man than he has been killed before now and will be killed hereafter. We can hardly expect to keep our eyes on the pedigree of every man on Earth.”

“How I wish that discord could be banished from the world of gods and men, and with it anger, insidious as trickling honey, anger that makes the wisest man flare up and spreads like smoke through his whole being”

“The War-god has no favourites: he has been known to kill the man who thought he was going to do the killing”

“Xanthus, you waste your breath by prophesying my destruction. I know well enough that I am doomed to perish here...Nevertheless, I am not going to stop until I have given the Trojans their bellyful of war.”