No War Quotes

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war.

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.

I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

Every soldier is an enemy.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

I have to say I like Obama a lot. His record is the best. He's always been vocal about his opposition to the war in Iraq. Frankly, he seems very good in a lot of ways.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

I can stand out the war with any man.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.