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

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.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

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

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.

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.

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

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 a contagion.

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

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

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.

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

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

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

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

Law is always better than war.

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.

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.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

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.

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?‘

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

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.

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

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in 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.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

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

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

People like to talk about war.