No War Quotes

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.

Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

There is one transcending level, and this is the most excellent of all. This person is aware of the endlessness of entering deeply into a certain Way and never thinks of himself as having finished.

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...

Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.