No War Quotes

Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

There are not more than five primary colors  (blue, yellow,   red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

Danger has a bracing effect.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream.  It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive,  knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

If his forces are united, separate them.

who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

So long as victory can be attained,   stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!

Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!

I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!

He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.

When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" )

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

It was nearly ten years since the peace though her memories of the war still felt fresh.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate, , , The obliteration of memory.

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.

In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.

We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.

They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.

The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.