No War Quotes

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

I'll tell you what the danger is for Europe. It's carrying out a cold war against Russia and pushing Russia into China's arms. That's the threat to Europe.

War justifies everything.

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

There's no war that will end all wars.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.