No War Quotes

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a "Wirtschaftswunder," which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?