No War Quotes

Defense is the first act of war.

When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

War is merely a continuation of politics.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!

Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

Peace is obtained by war.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.