No War Quotes

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

The threat of a world war is no more.

We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.

Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

Fair is fair; all love is war.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.