No War Quotes

Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

War is too important to be left to the generals

Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion.

For 1, 300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. These men are worthYour tears:You are not worth their merriment.

Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

Engage the enemy more closely.

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.

Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.

The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

Sometimes, a war saves people.

He'd imagined peacetime would bring him a sense of belonging. During the war it kept him going, that thought of peace. He'd believed in it like a season he knew it would arrive one day

If water won't smother the blazeFather, take my tears and bestow them on the firesee if the fires will wither.

Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.

Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.

There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.

If no war in heaven, then defeat ain't misery.

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

Everyday we are at war. Peaceful mind is earned.

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

In wars amongst ideas, doubters are the victims.

Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

At time of peace, we should love one another.At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.

War in heaven makes no peace on earth.

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.

Christ! What are patterns for?

the worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

Wars are won in the will.