In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWe cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy CarterI 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.
Albert EinsteinI have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas JeffersonWar is the province of danger.
Carl von ClausewitzLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James BaldwinWar 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.
Jimmy CarterWar is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas CarlyleThe connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia WoolfWe have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.
Colin PowellA lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
Barack ObamaI can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
George H. W. BushWhen the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.
Jean-Paul SartreThe world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. KennedyWar is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas JeffersonThe U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.
Jim MattisWar will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. MenckenLet us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander HamiltonOne of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
Vivienne WestwoodIf you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
Noam ChomskyLaws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWar 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.
Alice WalkerEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George OrwellWe lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.
Stephen HawkingMortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George EliotWar will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. KennedyIn the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!
Noam ChomskyCharacter is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch SpinozaFor a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest HemingwayCould I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthurWar is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
Angelina JolieI will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!
Nipsey HussleDiplomats 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.
Will RogersI can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor RooseveltTake the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will RogersOf all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James MadisonWhen the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston ChurchillThe dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?
Alice WalkerFollow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace ThackerayCommunism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy GrahamRussia 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.
Colin PowellWould you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
Kanye WestThe argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
Noam ChomskyTo secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von ClausewitzAnyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor RooseveltThe sinews of war are infinite money.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.
Colin PowellWar is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Carl von ClausewitzThe earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
Nikola TeslaThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. PattonMany intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Carl von ClausewitzGermany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore RooseveltAny government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
George W. BushHistory teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald ReaganUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedyOnce we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest HemingwayI don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.
Colin PowellA man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton