No War Quotes

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

‎Old enough to kill means old enough to die

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

I am proud of my children. They will make great warriors. And I will watch over them forever. I promise.

Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination

When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.