No War Quotes

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on

The shot heard round the world.

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.