No War Quotes

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

Being part of the original Star Wars generation, I have always known a dark future.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

In the years before the war, whenever [Adolf] Hitler would be holed up in Bayreuth, Eva [Braun], myself and our mother often went to Italy for a week.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs.

In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.

I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How many divisions have you?' ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.