No War Quotes

I’ll give you one chance to run, but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear…“It’s best to watch out for men, like me.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.

...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

...the weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.

Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

Here at great expense, ' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic bomb.

Kurdistan has a long and turbulent history. Today, it faces a future branching in directions that could lead it towards success or disaster, freedom or renewed oppression.

Let's make it flashy!

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to do with this accolade for her son, other than let her have moment, or it helps her back here.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

Being a hero is the easiest way to meet a bullet with your name on it.

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.

Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.

Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.

patriotism of many is....a voice and nothing more... A spirit of money-making has eaten up our patriotism. Our morals are more depreciated than our currency.

What comes through war is given back through war. All spoils will be retaken, all plunder will be dispersed. All victors will be defeated and every city filled with prey will be sacked in its turn.

In war, the only true victory is peace.

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....

That is — your friend?" "Philtatos, " Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

Flashlight beams danced crazily

I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

It is an odd thing that you can easily get millions of pounds for weapons to destroy life, but it is exceedingly difficult to get thousands for weapons to preserve it.