No War Quotes

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

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

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.

Ancestral voices prophesying war.

Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.