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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

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.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

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.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

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.

War is the business of barbarians.

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

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

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

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

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.

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.

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

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

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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

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 peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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.

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

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

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

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 just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

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.

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.

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.

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

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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

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

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

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.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

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

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

Jackie Chan is a myth.

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