Charles Bukowski Quotes

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

One war only breeds another.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

War is death's feast.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

One would think that man would run out of wars.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.