No War Quotes

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.

Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982 Lebanon War.

Democracies don't go to war.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

War makes its own morals.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

War always takes you by surprise.

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

Jihad is described as a war against Muslims, to establish the religion.

One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.

The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.