I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

A 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.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

A siege is an act of war.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

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.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

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

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Once 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.

People like to talk about war.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

War is a contagion.

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.

We 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.

Germany 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.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

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.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

There’s backlash about everything I do.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

In 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!

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

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

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