Here we have the best War Quotes from famous authors such as Neville Chamberlain, Thomas Sowell, Ramsey Clark, Eric Schmidt, Samuel Fuller. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it’s all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It’s had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we’re much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Morality is contraband in war.
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’
Conquered, we conquer.
War is at its best barbarism.
War is a defeat for humanity.
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in the Philippines escaping Japanese military chasing after them – I grew up with what they deem now as trauma, generational trauma.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
‘Turn to Stone’ was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It’s a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.
We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.
Accursed be he that first invented war.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
I ended the war a horse ahead.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
In every war, there’s looting.
My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
A true war story is never moral.
I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called ‘White Feathers.’ It was produced in the studio theatre at the students‘ union in early 1999, when I was 21. It’s 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good… when trade stops, war comes.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
War is a profane thing.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren’t actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
A war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is the beginning of a major catastrophe in the region, and it will reflect very strongly on the rest of the world. For sure, we will not allow any such thing.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
War settles nothing.
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
Football is like war. It’s about taking territory.
We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue – not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
The war has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. I would ask him, ‘When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?’
‘Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
The middle of ‘America’s Women’ is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit.
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
There’s nothing good that comes out of war. It’s simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don’t.
What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
I’d been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
The State thrives on war – unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars… if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
The real war will never get in the books.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
The military people don’t like it; the government probably doesn’t like it, but the people should know what they’re sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
If it were a fact, it wouldn’t be called intelligence.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
We can’t afford to lose all that we’ve built from the ashes of the Korean War.
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
We make war that we may live in peace.
I made ‘Saving Private Ryan’ for my father. He’s the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
I have my cousin‘s jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It’s incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
We’ve killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war – mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
Once you start a war, you have to win.
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
I was born into Sudan‘s civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
Journalists typically don’t carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you’re armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target.
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it’s people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it’s also a cause for war and bloodshed.
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can’t function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
War is hell.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it’s a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
We are no longer demonstrators. We are not actors, we are now people committed to the proposition that if the government won’t stop the war, we will stop the government.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
In many… cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you’re seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you’re seeing all-out war.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it.
Laws are silent in time of war.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it’s doing, look at what it’s promoting, look at what it’s condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there’s some sort of Republican War on Women. We don’t do this to women! We don’t objectify women like this.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
All oppression creates a state of war.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
The first lesson is that you can’t lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can’t win a war if you haven‘t.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses, compassionate bears, hair that didn’t move in a stiff wind, and the constant threat of nuclear war.
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.
I’m not afraid to say I’m at war with the pigs.
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.
Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
I have not yet begun to fight!
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.
Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn’t bother fighting it.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
War’s not black and white; it’s gray. If you don’t fight in the gray area, you’re going to lose.
This union has been divided in like a civil war – brother against brother – sister against sister. And I’m pulling it together. We’ve already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
The war correspondent has his stake – his life – in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
The Ukrainian nation, as no other nation, understands and is fully aware of the tragedy and its scale of all the lost lives of the Ukrainian Jews during the Second World War.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
A hospital alone shows what war is.
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
A siege is an act of war.
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.
War is the science of destruction.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren’t any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn’t necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
Over the year,s the government launched more than one ‘war on corruption,’ and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it’s not something you want to remember or think about.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
There are two problems for our species‘ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.
War is the trade of Kings.
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts – we have learned only recently how close we were to war – but I knew enough to make me tremble.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
War is what happens when language fails.
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
From the point of the view of the nation’s power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people’s powers of resistance.
The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn’t.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
What is not conservative about saying, ‘Don’t go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?’
Peace is produced by war.
Sweat saves blood.
To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
We are at war, if you will, in the cyber domain now, constantly battling countries, such as Russia or China, who are trying to do everything from steal our technology to influence our elections to put out disinformation about the United States.
I like war.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
American GIs don’t fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson’s.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism ‘inevitably’ caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea.
Public diplomacy was an effective Cold War weapon.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war’s dislocation.
Regardless of what one’s attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
In time of peace prepare for war.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
What is more immoral than war?
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.
Rock ‘n’ roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
A nation’s ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
War is failure of diplomacy.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
I don’t believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war – diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power – and we are developing new tools as we go along.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.
Generally, the view that I’ve had on Twitter is if you’re on Twitter, you’re in, like, the meme – you’re in meme war land. If you’re on Twitter, you’re in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
