Martin Luther Quotes About War
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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
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We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
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Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.
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War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
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A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
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I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
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Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
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Nothing good ever comes of violence.
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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
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