No War Quotes

We are the pioneers of the world

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.

While you are waiting to die, you have to live.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

There were more than a dozen extinction level events before even the dinosaurs got theirs!

In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoir and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior

I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.

If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time.

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

If you carry a weapon, war will follow you. If you carry a smile, love will knock at your door.

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

We were all survivors—every last one of us who limped our way out to the sidewalks that afternoon and spit in Death’s cold face.

Your shield must surpass your weaponry.

Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive.

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.

With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down together

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.

Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.

The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.

The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.