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  • In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

    Dog   Peace   War  
    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

    War   Causes   Justify  
  • Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

    Peace   War   Stupid  
  • There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!

    War   Army   Matter  
    Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.263, Canongate Books
  • What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

    Running   Peace   War  
    Bertolt Brecht (1963). “Plays”
  • You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

    War   Causes   Good War  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.103, Penguin
  • There is no good war.

    War   Good War  
    "Syria's al-Assad speaks: Why he blames U.S. for truce's demise, and says war will 'drag on'". Interview, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 22, 2016.
  • I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

    War   Believe   Pacifist  
  • There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

    Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.228
  • There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

    Peace   Military   War  
  • He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

    War   Good War  
    'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420
  • When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

    War   America   Japan  
    Interview with Liev Schreiber, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 28, 2009.
  • It is the good war that hallows every cause.

    War   Causes   Good War  
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.42, Oxford University Press
  • In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

    "Marlborough; his life and times".
  • If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

  • When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

    Honesty   Integrity   War  
    Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) See Edmund Burke 28; Mill 18
  • War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

    Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

    Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan
  • War makes rattling good history.

    The Dynasts pt. 1, act 2, sc. 5 (1904)
  • There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

  • There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

    War   Good War  
    "The Works of Benjamin Franklin".
  • Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

    War   Iraq   Vietnam  
  • They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

    Death   Country   Sweet  
    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster
  • I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

    "I don't have a modem". Interview with Dan Josefsson, www.josefsson.net. November 23, 1994.
  • There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

    Peace   War   4th Of July  
  • I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing
  • War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

    Peace   War   Reading  
  • I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.107
  • I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

    Peace   War   Cutting  
  • The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

    War   Army   Opportunity  
    Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.12, SJ Creations Tokyo
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