No War Quotes

When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.

...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

War is death's feast.

A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.