No War Quotes
To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.
There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
Even my momma asked what I'mma do. Decisions, decisions/ In case this is war, then I load up on all ammunition/ If a n----a want problems, my trigger's on auto.
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy!
As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end
Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.
Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.
...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
