No War Quotes

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

War is an admission of failure

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.

I left it with a warmer,” he said drily. Because war mages ate their fried chicken frozen to the ground and they liked it.

He’s a war mage. They’re almost impossible to kill.” He scowled. “Even on purpose.

I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious. I'm fighting this war against all that because pop music, in my opinion, should be fun.

If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.

If Trump really opposed the war in Iraq, all he has to do is show us the evidence. It would take five minutes. He hasn’t done it. He’s lying.

I have a notion that there's a Star Wars out there waiting to be made, and I'm not sure it's the next Star Wars. I think it's something else that will be fresh and original.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime and by their supporters in Iran and in Russia.

I'm kind of a weirdo; I love prison movies and war movies.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.