Famous quotes containing the words wars and/or war:
“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
—Martha Gellhorn (b. 1908)