No War Quotes

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.

O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

Don't go looking for trouble.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.