No War Quotes

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

Are we all ready? (Deimos) (Letting out a blood-chilling war cry, he and the rest of the Dolophoni ran through the caverns.) I hate their dramatics…and their decibel level. (M'Adoc)

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.

The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

Do not press an enemy at bay.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?