As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

Laws are silent in time of war.

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

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

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

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 have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

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

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.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

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

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

We 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.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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.

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

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.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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.

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

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.

War 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.

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

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

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.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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

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?‘

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

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

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

War is the business of barbarians.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

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.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.