No War Quotes

But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

War is not won by victory.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

I came through and I shall return.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars

Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.