No War Quotes

The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more a part of our domestic lives.

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

War is the father and king of all.

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

Why wait for Death to mow? why wait for Death to sow us in the ground?

Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near.

Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand apart with an army: My mind is graven with ships.

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.

America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.

I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.

I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.

Where we have a different background [with Hillary Clinton] on this issue is we differ on the war in Iraq, which created barbaric organizations like ISIS.

You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.

We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace.

I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

The war in Iraq was unwinnable.