No War Quotes

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'

Kill them all, God will recognise his own.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Peace is more difficult than war.

One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

[During a pre-war interview with Hitler when he screamed at her, 'The Jews! The Jews! What are you doing about the Jews in America?':] Why nothing. We think we're just as good as they are.

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

Law is always better than war.