No War Quotes

Thank God I have done my duty.

If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

War, the World's Only Hygiene

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

the better angels of our nature

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.