No War Quotes

War is too strange to be processed alone.

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.

It's magnificent, but it's not war.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

War is sweet to them that know it not.

War is sweet to those who never tried it.

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.

You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of events is the same. That really fascinated me.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

War is not to be waged in the name of God.

I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

War? War is an organized bore.

Lose this battle so we can win the war.

The only way to end war is communication between people.

Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

As a writer, my weapon is my pen. I want to create more awareness about the people in Syria. This is the most important issue: protecting civilians in this crazy war.

Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.

We respect and support the example set by President José Mujica of Uruguay in proposing legislation that regulates the cannabis market

Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so