Futile War Quotes

This is an eternal war against terrorism. It’s like a war on dandruff.

No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Everyone has come to recognize that the Great War [World War I] was utter social insanity, and was a crazy war, and we had no business in it at all.

We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

That war will never be won militarily.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?