No War Quotes

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.

When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.

Reprisals are but a sad resource.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

War is like government, a matter of tact.

Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

Man, not men, is the most important consideration.

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.

My formative years were all about 'Star Wars' - the first three, not the last crap, obviously. I understood 'Star Trek' but it was too caricatured for me.

What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.