No War Quotes

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

Our hearts are with you and we are ready to provide any assistance at any time....This is a war between good and evil and between humanity and the bloodthirsty.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.

We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that has cost the lives of 5,000 people.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

Jihad is misused by fundamentalists. The Quranic meaning is not meant for war at all, in the sense of killing.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.

The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

In Kurdistan, theres a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.