Quotes About War

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

Just because war is hell doesn't mean you can't have a little fun.

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.

There will be no veterans of World War III.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

We are all victims of war, and we all count.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.