No War Quotes

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

If enough citizens believe their national security’s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

I don't believe in making war with food. Food is not the enemy. Said by Claire in The 5th Horseman

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.

Here's the latest from the Pentagon -- the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News.

The Iraqis sat down for talks on how to put together a post-war government. They would have sat down yesterday, but somebody stole all their couches.

According to CNN, Donald Rumsfeld said the war in Iraq did not go according to plan. And President Bush said, 'What? We had a plan?'

Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How did we screw that one up?

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.