Quotes About War

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.