No War Quotes

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.

Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

Israel is run by war criminals...

Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and Tipper [Gore] leading the charge!

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

I've got to see the Brexit process through. We've won the war but we must win the peace.

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.