No War Quotes

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

We ain't goin' study war no more.

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

It has all been most interesting.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.