No War Quotes

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.