No War Quotes

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

Let my country die for me.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

A rational army would run away.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

All delays are dangerous in war.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don’t belong on our streets.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

Boys are the cash of war.