No War Quotes

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop.

Violence is sometimes a duty.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.

John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.

There is no room in war for delicate machinery.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

France... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!