No War Quotes

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show a side that we don't see.

Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

We shall not surrender.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.

If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!

No one conquers who doesn't fight.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.