No War Quotes

Public opinion wins wars.

The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

True wars are never won.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

The world only remembers the winners.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war.

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to the world than we have.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.