No War Quotes

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.

Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

We believed ourselves indestructable... watching only the madmen outside our frontiers, and we remained defenseless against our own madmen.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.