No War Quotes

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Men, do as I say and I will always lead you to victory.

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.

I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

All Quiet on the Western Front.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

It is said that the inferior seek to emulate the superior. Thus, if a general slackens only a little, those beneath him will be greatly negligent.

Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

The principal cause of war is war itself.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.