Quotes

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.
-Martin H. Fischer

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
-Omar Bradley

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
-John F. Kennedy

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-Gulf War

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?
-Joan Baez

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
-Herbert V. Prochnow

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
-Napoleon Hill

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
-David Friedman

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
-George McGovern

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.
-Dick Motta

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
-Gandhi

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
-Joseph Heller

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
-George Meredith

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
-Norman Cousins

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.
-Arthur Koestler

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.
-Pacifist Badge

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
-Sir George Porter

Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument.
-James Frederick Green

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
-Georges Clemenceau

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
-Franklin P. Jones

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
-Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
-James Morrow

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
-Albert Einstein

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say 'no' to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses
-Louis Lecoin

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
-Andre Gide

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
-Victor Hugo

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
-Douglas Jerrold

The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter.
-Reginald Wright Kauffman

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
-Colman McCarthy

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
-Ernest Hemingway

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
-Voltaire, War

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals
-Charles Evans Hughes

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters.
-Edward Gibbon

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
-Francis Meehan

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
-Bertrand Russell

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.
-Colonel Potter

We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
-Havelock Ellis

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
-Thomas de Quincey

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
-Aldous Huxley

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
-Otto Von Bismark

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
-Herbert Hoover

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.
-Henry Miller

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?
-Gregory Clark

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
-David Lloyd George

We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.
-Jello Biafra

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.
-William Cowper

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
-Fred Woodworth

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
-Ambrose Bierce

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
-Ronald D. Fuchs

A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
-German Proverb

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
-John F. Kennedy

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
-Henry Kissinger

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
-Gerome Gragni