War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

The 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.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

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.

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

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

People like to talk about war.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

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.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The 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.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

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.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Laws are silent in time of 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.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

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.