No War Quotes

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

I would rather wear out than rust out.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.

Killing is the payoff of war.

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?

The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I would go to war with Dhoni by my side.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.