No War Quotes

Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?

Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.

I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.

Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.

Each and every day, Israel remains on the frontline along with the United States in the War on Terror and is nothing but an unabashed ally of pro-democratic and pro-American policy.