No War Quotes

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

War is not a thing one wants.

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

War is not human nature. It is a habit.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.

In these days of wars and rumors of wars - haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

The war in Iraq is still going on. The British are helping. Mexico wants to help, but they need a ride over there.

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry for her.