No War Quotes

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

No two wars are identical.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

I personally believe that war is highly unlikely.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

People who look the other way when they see these war criminals are smaller criminals themselves.

It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.