No War Quotes

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

Bill Russell, a famous philosopher from Boston Celtics once "When things go bad, things go bad." The [Iraq] war was terribly mismanaged-it was terribly mismanaged.

And then you've got Lieberman, who is for the war. And thinks the tax cuts could really help. He's basically for people who want to vote for Bush but don't think Bush is Jewish enough.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguished die.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).

I have no more cheap morals to draw from all this death.

My personal analysis is that, if you are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and getting into foolish wars, then Hillary Clinton is not your woman. On the other hand, I mean neither is Donald Trump.

Barak Obama initially opposed [war in Libia].

War makes early risers of us all.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.