No War Quotes
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
People pay to see blood, they pay to see war and that's why people are supporting my journey because I deliver every time I step in the ring.
I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union
Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
