No War Quotes

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

If you want peace, prepare for the war.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

The only way for a soldier to not be afraid of wars is to accept the fact that he is already dead.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well

Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned gesticulation, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.