No War Quotes

That’s the attractive thing about war, ” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss.

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the Sure)

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

All is fair in fashion and war.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war.

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.

While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

War is a proof that idea has boundary.

Whoever won the war, would revise the history.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

the main thing is to make history not to write it

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it.

The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.

Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it’s a party.

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.

A bad peace is worse than war.

Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.

Victory is always bittersweet.

You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.

She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They wouldn’t let him speak. She would never know what scenes were driving that turmoil.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

This is how hatred begins -- with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door.

The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars." (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, "I love you.KailaniSiobhan Fallon