No War Quotes
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.
In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.
A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.
Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.
What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.
If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.
We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.
The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.