No War Quotes

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

Patriotism alone is not enough.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.

Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many good men.

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.