No War Quotes
Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.
The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?
A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.
It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.
A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the depths of one's heart can be seen.
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.
To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.
War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.
