No War Quotes

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe.... They are nations of eternal war.

A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.

I'm a Star Wars fan from way back, and I love where the stories are going now.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.

George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

We ran like a herd of wild cattle.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

War is at best barbarism.

I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.

The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.