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

War is what happens when language fails.

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.

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.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

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

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

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

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

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.

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.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

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.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

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

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

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.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

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

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Law is always better than war.

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 soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

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.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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

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.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

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

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

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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

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

Love 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.

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

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

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

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

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.