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.

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

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

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

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

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.

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

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

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

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

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

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.

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.

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

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

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.

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

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.

We shouldn’t be saying ‚Save the planet‘; we should be saying: ‚Save viable conditions in which people can live.‘ That’s what we’re dealing with here.

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

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

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.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

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

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.

War is what happens when language fails.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

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

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we’re so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it’s not going to be around forever.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

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

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.

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.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

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

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

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

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

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

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.