No War Quotes

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims.

That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have

Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

The authors of all our misfortune.

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

We are not at war (except with our own demons).

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

One out of four people internationally believe if their country goes to war, The United States would be the opponent. As a veteran, I hang my head in shame over that.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.

We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.

Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.

Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

It really never came up, but I think that in present-day America, they're - you know, and I touched on it in the initial clip - is that we are in the middle of this culture war.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.