Quotes About War

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

The only war is the war against the imagination.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.