Top 10 best war quotes

Wars have caused enormous human suffering throughout history. Despite ongoing efforts to prevent war, new conflicts continue to emerge and the threat of war remains a major concern for the international community. Most wars are fought over resources, territory, or ideology. The cost of war, both in terms of human lives and economic resources, is staggering.

            Here are the top 10 war quotes:

• War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. – General Smedley Butler

• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

• War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. – Martin Luther

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. – Martin Luther King Jr.

• The true soldier fights not because he hates hatred, but because he has love for his people, and he defends his own freedom and that of his nation. – Ho Chi Minh

• War is never a solution, it is an aggravation. – Benjamin Disraeli

• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. – Norman Cousins

• The only way to prevent war is not to fear it. – George Orwell

• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. – Franklin D. Roosevelt