No War Quotes

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Brave men die in battle.

Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.

Bush, as far as I'm concerned, is a war criminal. With Trump, we have no idea. Right now it's just a freak show.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.

War's extremely serious and it saddens me.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.