Quotes About War

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.