Anwar Sadat Quotes

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

War is a contagion.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

War remains the decisive human failure.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

The Middle East is undoubtedly in for a rocky time. In Palestine we have a situation which is badly fouled up by the past mistakes of many people, including ourselves. These probably cannot be settled without great unpleasantness, including violence.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

If women and children have cruelly and needlessly suffered, if without reason cities have been wrecked, the world should know that.

Tomorrow the war will start, There will be widows. There will be orphans. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

War is not a thing one wants.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

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