No War Quotes

Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

Any time you do a movie there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.

War can protect; it cannot create.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

A long war is degenerating - it ruins the mind and the soul and psyche of individuals and nations.

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera.

If we have to go to war, we will.

Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Everyone hates war, everyone says.

NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it doesn't really matter what he was referring to.

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.

I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.