No War Quotes

German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.

Our goal in Iraq is victory. Our goal is for a young democracy to be able to sustain itself, govern itself, and defend itself and serve as an ally in the war on terror.

I think a lot of the national Democrats believe that, you know, Iraq is a distraction and not part of the War on Terror. They've said so. And I strongly disagree.

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

[Donald Trump] even said, well, you know, if there were nuclear war in East Asia, well, you know, that's fine have a good time, folks.

Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].

John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?

John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.

You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.