Quotes About War

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."