No War Quotes
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him
Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.
Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.
The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.
To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.
Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
