No War Quotes

Wars have always started over religion

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.

With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

We must end war before war ends us.

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry the hatred about the murder of 5 million people on to another World War.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

In war, good guys always become bad guys.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.

Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.

The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

I think the core problem is much closer to recognizing where force is of value, where it is useful, and to distinguish that from situations in which war is not useful or is indeed counterproductive.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

It's a war out there and either they're going to hurt you or you're going to hurt them. I just go out there and play with my heart.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone else's?

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.