No War Quotes

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!

We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.

The nature of war is constant change.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth