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

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

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.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

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.

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

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

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.

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

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

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

The world is too violent right now.

War is the business of barbarians.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

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.

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.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

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 earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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.

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.

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.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

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.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

War settles nothing.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

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

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

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

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

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

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

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

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

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

I hope my own children never have to fight a 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.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.