No War Quotes

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

The only war is the war against the imagination.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

Raul, man, he's like a Twinkie. He would survive a nuclear war.

When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies collapse, they may recover.

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.