No War Quotes

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

We'll make a bunker hill of it.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war.

**** it, holler them across.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

War is nothing but organized murder.

I would fight them if they were a million!

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

God is always with the strongest battalions.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.