No War Quotes

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.

United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

You're not alone, are you? Because I'm here

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

War is not civilized.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

Nobody intends to put up a wall!

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

Victory is a thing of the will.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.