No War Quotes

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

A man can die but once.

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

The leader must be an actor.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Without supplies no army is brave.

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

War will make corpses of us all.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I should like to have been killed in the war.

If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

We owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds, wake up in the morning, have a delicious breakfast, and drive to war.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.