No War Quotes

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

They won the war but lost the peace.

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending money on other things that we could have spent the money on.

I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.

The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

It may be that [Erwin Rommel] believed it to be possible to convince [Adolf] Hitler to go away and to end the war, but Hitler never dreamed of doing something like that.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.