No War Quotes

Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked

The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.

I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.

It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let somebody else hit the homeruns.

Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.