No War Quotes

Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

We are not at war against Islam.

In America, we want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they're going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war. That's our purpose.

My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

If war explodes in Sudan, it could have a destabilizing effect that creates more space for terrorist activity that could eventually be directed at our homeland.

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn't be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.

We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.

I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war .

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it, and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.