No War Quotes

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

Nothing needs a war. There is no problem that needs a war to bring it to a resolution.

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.

Republicans have pounced. They're outraged. They say, 'How dare you lie about caring for the people who got hurt in the war we lied them into?'

I just don't see why anybody would vote Republican in the Army. If you want to support the troops, if I was a troop, I would say, 'You know how to support me? Don't send me to stupid wars.'

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

War is politics by other means.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.

By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.