No War Quotes

Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

Sometimes brothers are in war with each other, but at the end love conquers all.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.