No War Quotes

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].

C-3PO is flappable [in Star Wars]. [Kaytoo is] very unflappable compared to C-3PO, who is just flapping all over the place.

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

I didn't start a war. Nobody died.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.