No War Quotes

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service.

I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.

When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.