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War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.