No War Quotes

I am very, very, very concerned about the United States getting drawn into an endless war, year after year after year.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.

We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

Headquarters in the Saddle.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

We still seek no wider war.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.

Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.

The Art of War is self-explanatory

I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.