No War Quotes

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

War would end if the dead could return.

We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.

Forward, men, and mix with them.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.