No War Quotes

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

The class war is over.

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it once, but hand it over directly to the recipient.

Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.

Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.

I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.