No War Quotes

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

Every War in the past 50 Years is a Result of Media Lies

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.