No War Quotes
Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.
In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.
Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.
I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?
And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.
A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies.
And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling
I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.