No War Quotes

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.

My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

Would you end war? Create great Peace.

Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

There can be no compromise with war.

Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.

The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For?

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

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.

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

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

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Boys are the cash of war.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.