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The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
— Desiderius Erasmus
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ... making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
— Charles Sumner
War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
— Konrad Lorenz
Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.
— Donald G. Firesmith
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.
— William Of Tyre
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
— James Anthony Froude
The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.
— Steven Franssen
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.
— McGeorge Bundy
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.
— Thomas Jefferson
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
— Blaise Pascal
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.
— Patrick Henry
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.
— Herman Melville
There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it!
— Bernard Cornwell
War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.
— Hans F. Sennholz
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Philosophically, war is an extension of man's struggle with sin and evil in the world.
— Billy Graham
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
— Thomas Jefferson
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
— Miyamoto Musashi
And war-the worst form of evil!
— Theodore Parker
We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
— Antisthenes
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
— Bertrand Russell
As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear. — Zarina Bibi
What an immense mass of evil must result ... from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
— Leo Tolstoy
But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
