No War Quotes

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin

Ignorance, not sin, causes suffering. LIFT THE VEIL." ~ Lilli in the Great Theater

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.

Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?

Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.

What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.

What are we doing, burying bodies?" Admittedly, this would be a lace to do it. Isolated, off any main roads."Nope. We're going to war.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and not the two, war is a lot worse.

Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.

War is very cruel, a predatory jungle, and is never the true path of life.

Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war.

From defilement can come much wisdom

Words are weapons of war.

delete the word War .rest is peace

want a war ? please fall in love with your awaken soul

I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.

War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and of the two, war is a lot worse.

There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

This is my war, and I don't know what side I'm on.

There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.

This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.

Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.

You've been so used to fighting Wars with a gun in your hand that you forget to put it down. Not every fight requires a weapon of some kind, and not everything is a fight.

War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money.

War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.

Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.

Truth is the first casualty of war.

The war never leaves.

War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive...

I answered the call to heal before I answered the call of duty to my country. My job is to help and heal, not to destroy.

This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.

When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.

War is when people kill one another, right? Why would they do that?