No War Quotes

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

If at war, understand what it takes to win: Set a goal, define victory and fully support the effort. Leave no doubt that you respect the troops and appreciate their service.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

Never start a war with something you can't talk to.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

War is murder writ large.

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.

It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.