No War Quotes

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

It was not war, it was murder.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.