No War Quotes

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.