It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we’d think it’s a pretty serious problem. In fact, we’d probably go to war.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

In time of war the laws are silent.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Laws are silent in time of war.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

War is what happens when language fails.

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

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

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.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.