Quotes About War

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

In war, truth is the first casualty.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

A poet must learn to wage war.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.