No War Quotes
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.
For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.
war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.
War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.
If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.
If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights.
When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.
Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.
We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.
I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
Philosophically, war is an extension of man’s struggle with sin and evil in the world.
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war?
Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.
Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.
Revelation is a pastor’s letter to his floundering flock, an urgent telegram bearing a brilliant battle plan for a people at war.
A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.
Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.
The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.
I think to myself: I don't want to survive this oneI want to burn up in the wreckage
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.
Named Harris, " Bill said. "Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too.""Fortunate fellow, " Mike said. "What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back.
I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole, and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth
You're fighting this war in the worst way possible." "I don't know how to fight it, Dad.""You should ask for help, " he said."I don't know how to do that, either.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.
In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one's opponent.
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.