No War Quotes

People don't start wars, governments do.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.

Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.

How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.

I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of war itself which is largely a large load of bullshit.

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

There's never any guarantee at war.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

Keep in mind that the Iraqis are not telling us anything we don't already know or can't prove. This is what makes this whole inspection process and all the rigmarole surrounding it a total farce.

We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that Bush lied and people died, and we were all over the Middle East.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.

General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.