Statements about the war by Russian writers. Quotes and aphorisms about war
The collection includes quotes about war and bloodshed:
- I am confident that the mistakes of the previous war will not be repeated; we will probably make another set of mistakes. Winston Churchill
- Combat experience comes only after the need for it has ceased. Murphy's Army Laws
- I consider war disgusting, but even more disgusting to me are those who glorify it without participating in it. Romain Rolland
- There are no winners in war, only losers. Neville Chamberlain
- Youth who died in war are like spring taken from the year. Pericles
- In peacetime, sons bury their fathers; in wartime, fathers bury their sons. Francis Bacon
- The feelings of justice, decency, fidelity, based on the recognition of equality of rights, lose their force in civil wars, when each side looks at the other as a criminal, and arrogates to itself the right to judge him. Friedrich Schiller
- In the course of every arms race, there eventually comes a psychological moment when war seems to be the only means of liberation from the unbearable expectation of catastrophe. Alexander Kerensky
- Only the victors decide what war crimes are. G. Wille
- In any war, everyone attributes success to themselves, and blame for misfortune is placed on one. Tacitus
- There can only be one thing worse than fighting with allies: fighting without allies. W. Churchill
- War is the greatest disaster that can cause suffering to humanity; it destroys religion, states, families. Any disaster is preferable to her. Martin Luther
- It’s good to hear about war, but God forbid to see it. Russian proverbs
- War is evil; it is carried out with the help of great injustices and violence, but for honest people there are some laws in war. You cannot pursue victory if the benefits it gives will be acquired through baseness and crime. A great commander must wage war relying on his own courage, and not on betrayal of duty on the part of others. Plutarch
- Clouds cannot hide the sun, war cannot defeat the world. Russian proverbs
- War is not a continuation of politics, but a defeat of politics. Hans von Seeckt, Chief of the Reichswehr
- Anyone who has not lived through a single war will never know what a wonderful pre-war time he lived in. Gabriel Laub
War is a crime against humanity, where there are perpetrators and customers of the crime. Konstantin Kushner- Patience and humility are necessary for both peace and war. John of Damascus
- War is a wolf, and it can come to your door. Bernard Show
- As soon as good, honest, selfless people unite and start a war in the name of a good cause, soon the worst of the villains inevitably turns out to be their commander in chief. This is such a thing - war, don’t expect anything good from it. Boris Akunin
- War is a kind of action, thanks to which people who do not know each other kill each other for the sake of glory and benefit of people who know each other and do not kill each other. P. Valerie
- Today it is more difficult to officially sentence one single person to death at the stake than to start a world war. Elias Canetti
- War is, for the most part, a catalog of blunders. Winston Churchill
- The fastest way to win the war against poverty is to stop pretending we're rich.
- War is too serious a matter to be left to generals. D. Kennedy
- The most humane thing you can do in war. - quickly bring it to an end. Helmut von Molypke
- War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language. Ambrose Bierce
- Even cowards can start a war, but the brave must fight its dangers. Tacitus
- The war will be repeated until the issue of it is decided not by those who die on the battlefields. Henri Barbusse
- Prologue of the 20th century - gunpowder factory. Epilogue - Red Cross barracks. Vasily Klyuchevsky
- War imposes tribute equally on both men and women, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others. William Thackeray
- After the massacre - victory; after victory - division; and then there are more winners than there were combatants. This is the custom of any war. Honore de Balzac
- War is war, but lunch is according to schedule. Russian proverbs
- Just as the greatest physical evil is death, so the greatest moral evil is, of course, war. Voltaire
- War makes the winner stupid and the vanquished evil. F. Nietzsche
- The first casualty of war is truth. X. Johnson
- War is not only a shock, but also a spiritual test and spiritual judgment. Ivan Ilyin
- No one fights in war with such zeal as in the war for his native country. Demosthenes
- War is a process that ruins those who win it. P. Buast
- The country that needs to be conquered constantly has not been conquered. Edmund Burke
- War uses the best in man to bring out the worst. E. Mackenzie
- It is just as useful for a people to fear war as it is for an individual to fear death. Jules Renard
- War does not heal people, it only cripples them. Russian proverbs
- The enemy has peace on his tongue, but war in his heart. Russian proverbs
- War does not solve any problems; victory is just as destructive as defeat. Agatha Christie
- In war, everyone is equal in the likelihood of death. Georgy Alexandrov
- War feeds on money, war rejoices in blood - this is how it was before us. Danilo Tuptalo
- We don’t want war, but we are ready for war. Russian proverbs
- War spoils the army. Friedrich Wilhelm, King of Prussia
- People decide to fight with greater enthusiasm than actually fight the war, and change their mood with the change in military happiness. Thucydides
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Jeannette Rankin
- Anyone who isn't completely confused doesn't really understand what's going on. Ed Murrow, on the Vietnam War
- War is a denial of truth and humanity. It’s not just a matter of killing people, for a person must die one way or another, but the conscious and persistent spread of hatred and lies, which are gradually instilled in people. Jawaharlal Nehru
- Either humanity ends the war, or humanity ends the war. D. Kennedy
- Don't joke with war and fire. Russian proverbs
Anyone who wants to fight has no reason to go to war. Russian proverbs- There will be wars as long as at least one person can make money from them. Bertolt Brecht
- Anyone who has not been to the war has no right to talk about it. Marlene Dietrich
- Wars start when they want, but end when they can. J. Machiavelli
- To whom is war, and to whom mother is dear. Russian proverbs
- Wars are like legal battles where the legal costs exceed the amount in dispute. Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues
- When the war ends, heroes come out of hiding. Yu. Bulatovich
- All warlike peoples are prone to idleness and love danger more than hard work. Roger Bacon
- No matter how terrible war is, it still reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest hereditary enemy - death. Heinrich Heine
- All mistakes in other areas can be corrected somehow, but mistakes in war are irreparable, because they are punished immediately. Niccolo Machiavelli
- Every state is ready to welcome the general disarmament of all other states.
- Anyone in government power is obliged to avoid war, just as the captain of a ship avoids shipwreck. Guy de Maupassant
- The art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds except what has been calculated and thought out. Napoleon
- Winning the battle is not the main thing. The main thing is not to be poisoned at the feast of the winners! E. Lec
- And I would go to war, but it would be a pity to leave my wife. Russian proverbs
- Where there is war, there is robbery. Russian proverbs
- Not a single war has ever begun without hysterical cries for peace. Stas Yankovsky
- Preparedness for war is one of the most effective means of maintaining peace. D. Washington
- If our soldiers understood why we are fighting, no war would be possible. Frederick the Great
- For a conventional army, failure to win means defeat. For a partisan army, not being defeated means winning. Henry Kissinger
- Stand together for peace - there will be no war. Russian proverbs
- For those who fought, the war never ends. K. Malaparte
- There are just wars, but there are no just troops. Andre Malraux
- Woe to the statesman who does not take the trouble to find a basis for war that will still retain its significance even after the war. Otto von Bismarck
- The conqueror is a madman who begins by ruining his own subjects in order to have the pleasure of ruining the subjects of others. P. Buast
- It is just as impossible to win a war as it is impossible to win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin
- Sometimes one ruler attacks another out of fear that he will not attack him. Sometimes we start a war because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak, sometimes our neighbors want what we have, or have what we lack. Then the war begins and continues until they capture what they need or give what we need. Jonathan Swift
- One cannot live on yesterday's glory in war. Russian proverbs
- History proves, unfortunately, that war is in some sense the normal condition of mankind; that human blood must be shed everywhere on earth and that peace for any nation is only a respite. Joseph de Maistre
- Every war comes from an adversary. Russian proverbs
- Every combat veteran knows that much of war consists of unbearable boredom, punctuated by moments of complete and utter terror. Harry Summers Jr.
- All wars in the world are civil wars: man sheds man's blood. Francois Fenelon
- Once war becomes a reality, any opinion that does not take it into account begins to sound incorrect. A. Camus
- Here's proof that we really don't want war: we fight without declaring war. Karel Capek
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- Wars begin in the minds of people. From the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO
- Anyone who has never been to war has never drank water during a fit. Russian proverbs
- Wars are contagious. Franklin Roosevelt
- Anyone who interferes with us uninvited will get punched in the teeth. Russian proverbs
- Wars are a glorified atrocity. Seneca
- It’s easy to hear about war, but hard (scary) to see it. Russian proverbs
- War, which has always been a crime against humanity, is now also madness. John Bernal
- The best wars in human history are those that humanity managed to avoid. Baurzhan Toyshibekov
- War is a harsh school (check): it makes some young, others it ages. Russian proverbs
- People think that if they call the crime of murder “war,” then murder will cease to be murder, a crime. Lev Tolstoy
- War turns people born to live as brothers into wild beasts. Voltaire
- I fought a lot, but lost everything. Russian proverbs
- War creates more bandits than it kills.
- We find in human nature three main causes of war: first, rivalry; secondly, mistrust; thirdly, a thirst for fame. Thomas Hobbes
- War feeds on money and revels in blood. Russian proverbs
- In war, no one makes mistakes twice. Lamach
- War can have good consequences among savages, helping to select the strongest and most resilient, but on civilized peoples its influence is usually the most pernicious: it leads to the mutual extermination of the best and bravest. Alfred Foulier
- Hope for peace, but keep your eyes open. Russian proverbs
- War loves blood. Russian proverbs
- Preventing war is more difficult than winning a war. Konstantin Kushner
- The war is over when the last soldier is buried. Alexander Suvorov
- There is no vileness that war would not allow, there is no crime that would not be justified by it. Maksim Gorky
- War is one of the greatest sacrileges against man and nature. Vladimir Mayakovsky
- The vanquished bear responsibility for the war. Arkady Davidovich
- War for peoples is tears and blood, it is widows and street children, it is a scattered nest, lost youth and insulted old age... Ilya Erenburg
- Those who lift up the sword will die by the sword. Russian proverbs
- War has always been a direct means for external and indirect means for internal unification of humanity. Reason forbids throwing away this weapon while it is needed, but conscience obliges us to try so that it ceases to be needed. Vladimir Soloviev
- The elderly declare war, but the young have to fight and die. G. Hoover
- War to war. - Wed Soviet slogan “Peace to the world!” Russian proverbs
- Why not try governments for every declaration of war? If the peoples understood this, if they did not allow themselves to be killed without any reason, if they used weapons to turn them against those who gave them them to beat, the war would die on that day. Guy de Maupassant
Vladimir Mayakovsky. He is not the only one who spoke extremely negatively about this terrible phenomenon of human existence.
Statements about the war by Russian writers are overwhelmingly similar to this. We will talk briefly about these quotes in this article.
Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy is most famous for his anti-militarist views. His war quotes, sayings and phrases about war are famous all over the world, and choosing the most important one is not so easy. Perhaps the most significant of them is the following: “People who... recognize war not only as inevitable, but also useful and... desirable, these people are terrible for their moral perversity.”
Indeed, the great Russian writer more than once dealt extremely harshly with this activity of the human race, merciless in its madness. And this is not surprising, the champion of peace and educated society, the great moralist simply could not think differently. For this alone he should be given credit.
Bitter
Statements about the war by Russian writers should be continued with the famous quote from Maxim Gorky: “I know that war is a complete atrocity and that people who are innocent of each other exterminate each other.” Naturally, a person who has gone through the war and knows about it first-hand has a softer position. However, here too we see a sharp rejection of this misanthropic activity, which claimed the lives of many tens of millions of people in the twentieth century alone. And although he did not have the opportunity to see the most terrible test of the war, the one unleashed by Hitler, he nevertheless made a great contribution to the spread of peace.
Some militaristic statements
Nevertheless, one comes across statements about the war by Russian writers of a rather militaristic nature. For example, a quote from Sergei Yesenin: “What lips could not say in words, let pistols tell with bullets.” It’s as if Mars, the one who makes war, wrote these hostile lines with the hand of the famous romantic poet.
There are statements about the war by Russian writers directly related to the matter of military leadership. These include, for example, Alexander Suvorov. He became one of the most famous war theorists of all time. His statements mostly justify the conduct of this inhuman torture of people with which he was associated. As an example of the warlord’s warlike mentality, one can cite his famous phrase: “Beat the enemy without sparing... him.” However, he also has certain anti-militarist sentiments. As in the following quote: “Without virtue there is no glory and honor.” There are many other sayings left after
Conclusion
Aphorisms, quotes and statements of Russian writers can be listed for a very long time, even when it comes to such a phenomenon as war. It is important to understand the basic meaning conveyed by most of those who have written about this dangerous activity. And it is very simple. If humanity does not stop swinging a club, the power of which is now measured in megatons of TNT, then very soon there will simply be no room left on this planet to continue life, raise children, harvest wheat, build houses. Apparently, this is why many Russian writers write so much and so passionately about the danger of war, about the fact that any conflict can be resolved through negotiations. Let's hope that new generations of people will hear these words of Tolstoy, Gorky and others and think seriously before starting a bloody massacre called “war”.
Lessons from the past should improve the future. Therefore, from this side, quotes about war are useful. Quotes that show war from all sides will help you develop the right attitude towards this phenomenon of human life.
The soldier is the last link in the evolution of the animal world.
John Steinbeck
...The evil of war and the good of peace are known to people to such an extent that since we have known people, the best wish has been the greeting “peace be with you.”
Lev N. Tolstoy
War inevitably drains the state treasury. Would what was taken from the vanquished fill it? Since the ancient Romans, I do not know a single nation that has become rich as a result of victory.
Voltaire
War is not a real feat, war is a surrogate for a feat. The basis of a feat is the wealth of connections it creates, the tasks it sets, the accomplishments it encourages. A simple game of heads or tails will not turn into a feat, even if the stake in it is life or death. War is not a heroic deed. War is a disease. Like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To be created to create, to love and to conquer is to be created to live in the world. But war teaches us to lose everything and become something we were not.
Albert Camus
The personalities who left these sayings, I knew the art of war, quotes from these people can really be taken seriously.
War is a denial of truth and humanity. It’s not just a matter of killing people, for a person must die one way or another, but the conscious and persistent spread of hatred and lies, which are gradually instilled in people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
People who... recognize war not only as inevitable, but also useful and therefore desirable - these people are terrible, terrible in their moral perversity.
Lev N. Tolstoy
... the true reasons for the outbreak of the war are known to very, very few. Those who are unlikely to want to make them public. Those who benefit from ordinary people believing in a beautiful fairy tale generously flavored with patriotism.
Oleg Nikolaevich Bubela
Aphorisms about war can be difficult to understand, but war, unfortunately, is part of life and statements about war may help to avoid it.
There is no greater disaster than underestimating your enemy.
Lao Tzu
Those who know each other send those who do not know each other to fight each other.
Evgeniy Vitalievich Antonyuk
Art and literature, like war, are based on money.
Samuel Butler
I know that war is a complete atrocity and that in war people who are innocent of each other exterminate each other, being forcibly put into a state of self-defense.
Maksim Gorky
If only half of the efforts that were devoted to waging war, We devoted to the cause of enlightenment, - We would not need arsenals. And “warrior” would become a hated word, And that people, who again, having despised the law, Incited war and shed the blood of another, Again, like Cain, would be branded.
Henry W. Longfellow
War is barbaric when a peaceful neighbor is attacked, but it is a sacred duty when defending the homeland.
Guy de Maupassant
Old people declare war, and young people go to die.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
War benefits the mediocre. The world is always more profitable for the talented.
Peace is just a dream of war.
Only a few, whose vile well-being depends on the people's grief, make wars.
Sending people to war untrained means betraying them.
If we get into a fight, we will ruin the next and future years. Who needs it? Whose hands are itching? If you're itchy, scratch somewhere else!
As long as war is seen as nude, it will always have a certain appeal. When they learn to see vulgarity in her, she will not attract anyone.
Many people go to war because they don't want to be heroes.
The war is only over when the last soldier is buried.
Phrases from wise people about war
War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language.
Why are you killing me? - How for what? Friend, you live on the other side of the river! If you lived on this, I would indeed have committed a wrong, a crime, if I had killed you. But you live on the other side, which means my cause is just, and I accomplished a feat!
Prominent phrases of wise people about war
The peasant cultivates the fields, the worker enriches the cities, thinkers reflect, industry creates amazing things, genius creates miracles... and all this perishes on the terrifying international exhibition called the battlefield!
The war will be repeated until the issue of it is decided not by those who die on the battlefields.
A war cannot be fair, because you cannot fight fairly, even if you are fighting for justice.
Wars are like legal battles where the legal costs exceed the amount in dispute.
There is no need for war, no need. Let's work better, think, search. The only true glory is the glory of work. Warriors are the lot of barbarians.
War is a series of disasters leading to victory.
A glass of champagne lifts your mood, unleashes your imagination and sense of humor; however, a whole bottle makes you dizzy, your vision becomes dark, your legs give way. War works in much the same way. To really get a taste of both, it’s best to do a tasting.
War imposes tribute equally on both men and women, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others.
Just as peace is the end of war, so idleness is the end of employment.
Peace is the interval between two wars.
He could predict wars and; however, it was not difficult: they are always fighting somewhere and almost always starving somewhere.
Awesome phrases from wise people about war
Moderation in war is unforgivable stupidity.
If you want to win a war, you need to remember the old truth: the quieter you go, the further you will go.
They never lie so much as during the war, after the hunt and before the elections.
What a beautiful moon today! Yes, but if you had seen her before the war.
If the outcome of the war could be foreseen, all wars would cease.
The first panacea for a poorly governed country is currency inflation, the second is war; both bring temporary prosperity, both bring final destruction.
War is too serious a matter to be left to the military.
The war will last as long as people are foolish enough to be surprised and help those who kill them by the thousands.
Without war, no people are freed from any foreign yoke.
It is much easier to win a war than peace.
There is more valor in killing wars with words than killing people with iron.
Only the war that is undertaken for the highest and great principle, and not for material interest, not for greedy seizure, turns out to be useful.
War consists of unforeseen events.
War is war, and lunch must be on schedule.
Politics is as exciting as war. But more dangerous. In war you can be killed only once, in politics - many times.
Those who start a war themselves fall into their own networks.
Carefree phrases from wise people about war
For centuries, attempts have been made to fix the world with the help of explosives.
No one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
I don't believe that Russia wants war. She wants the fruits of war.
No matter how terrible war is, it still reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest hereditary enemy - death.
Peace has no fewer victories than war, but much fewer monuments.
Why not try governments for every declaration of war? If the peoples understood this, if they did not allow themselves to be killed without any reason, if they used weapons to turn them against those who gave them them to beat, the war would die on that day.
Woe to the statesman who does not take the trouble to find a basis for war that will still retain its significance even after the war.
When peoples fight among themselves, it is called war.
Anyone who has not lived through a single war will never know what a wonderful pre-war time he lived in.
Either humanity ends war, or war ends humanity.
War is one of the greatest sacrileges against man and nature.
Money is the artery of war.
We are at war. We are fighting for peace. We fight hunger. We can't live without a fight. We fight, fight, fight: with weapons, words, money. But everything remains the same: the world is not getting better.
Peace is not the absence of war, but the virtue that comes from fortitude.
Good-natured phrases from wise people about war
In love, as in war, woe to the vanquished!
There is no greater crime than unnecessary war.
War turns people born to live into wild beasts.
Before the battle every plan is good, after the battle every plan is bad.
How is the world governed and how wars break out? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe their own lies when they read them in newspapers.
Even a victorious war is an evil that must be prevented by the wisdom of nations.
He who wages war on everyone is hardly at peace with himself.
Love is like war: easy to start, but very difficult to end.
The only state of people before the formation of society was war, and not only war in its ordinary form, but a war of all against all.
A victorious army rarely rebels.
In a peaceful environment, a warlike person attacks himself.
Anyone in government power is obliged to avoid war, just as the captain of a ship avoids a wreck.
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.