No War Quotes

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

On the campaign trail, [Donald] Trump has threatened a trade war and repeatedly said that Mexico will pay for a wall on the Southern border.

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

The only way to win the war is to move people's hearts and minds.

Most wars are not won in a single battle.