No War Quotes

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war costs millions of dollars a day, and love--just a few bucks a night!

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy?

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

More die in flight than in battle.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

Well, it made you famous.

I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

I'm an indestructible master of war.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.