No War Quotes

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Americans do not like long wars with indecisive outcomes.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.

I get excited when fantasy football season's coming. This guy gets excited when war season's coming.

I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.

Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.

For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces.

Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.

Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.