No War Quotes

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

Every war is a war against children.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship will certainly meet with majority support of our two peoples.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

The true objective of war is peace.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Every true artist is at war with the world.