No War Quotes

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

I've got a war in my mind

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.

The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

Every bullet has its billet.

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

War is the health of the state.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.

George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.