No War Quotes

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

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

A war put off is not a war avoided.

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

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