No War Quotes

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Speed is the essence of war.

If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

War is life war is the origin of all things.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

Peace is produced by war.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.