No War Quotes

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

I think I was unprepared for war.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.

People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops

When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

We don't want wars even when we win.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.

The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.

Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

War is a bankruptcy of policy

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

The absence of war is not peace.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

Every war is a national misfortune.

During the war an Italian girl saved my life. She hid me in her basement in Cleveland.