No War Quotes

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

we train for war and fight to win.

Laws are inoperative in war

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Let reason govern desire.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

There never was a war that was not inward.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

A wanton waste of projectiles.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

The first casualty in every war is truth.

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

The military played polo. Polo, really, started as a game to train for war.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.