No War Quotes

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.

All they want is to point a finger.

Once you are a warrior, you must live like one. You can't be afraid to fight against and destroy anything that fights against what is right.

You killed the mandir in their homes, you killed the masjid in ours.

Be resolved that honor is heavier than the mountains and death lighter than the feather.

What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

A hero is a matter of perspective. The only sure thing in war is casualties. Ideology, patriotism and religious zeal all fuel heroic notions.

Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.

Seek only to preserve life -- your own and those of others. Life alone is sacred.

What the war did to the dreamers.

You fight by rules to keep your humanity

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!

I hated him for making me stop hating him

No one lives long in a war. I don't want to lose you as well.

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.

No one lives long in a war.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

He won’t stop the war until you give him the peace prize.

I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.

She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing.

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

You cannot win a war outside until you have won the war that you are fighting inside you first.

Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.

In a war of truth and lie, lie retreats always with shame and pity.

Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification.

I am sorry to disturb you, ' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.

Seemingly opposing forces can amalgamate.

I’d prefer ‘Bonnie Blue Flag’, if you take requests…” Tom had turned and rested his elbows on the bar. His hand was inches from the Colt. These were the men he was looking for.

Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.

The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.

Then I’m tempted to die just to … spite him.”“That’s the spirit that will win us the war.

On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.

Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.

What do you want? What do you want?...To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

Oppression is opposition.

Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take outmore enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.

The study of scriptures is a weapon of war.

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

In this world, those who have fallen in love cannot make clear judgements.

Treason is a matter of the date, Proctor

It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

they were forbidden words, laced with the fear of transgression and sin.

nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds

Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.