Pope Francis Quotes

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

… a war of the world

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

War is the science of destruction.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

You have wasted six hundred millions of treasure. You have sacrificed nearly ten thousand American lives—the flower of our youth. You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands of the people you desire to benefit.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.