No War Quotes

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.

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.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

War is out of date, obsolete.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

War is delightful for those who don't know it

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.