Top 36 Militarism War Quotes
#2. It seemed perverse to some, but for all their apparent militarism the Gzilt had remained peaceful over many millenia; it was the avowedly peaceful Culture that had , within living memory, taken part in an all-out galactic war against another civilisation.
Iain M. Banks
#3. The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
Simon Schama
#4. The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#5. No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.
A.J. Muste
#8. It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
Jeannette Rankin
#10. Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.
Colman McCarthy
#11. Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
George Will
#12. Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.
Preston Sprinkle
#13. When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.
P.J. Sullivan
#15. What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?
W.E.B. Du Bois
#16. I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.
Peter Landesman
#17. If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#18. A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.
Isaac Babel
#20. Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
#21. When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
Daniel Clowes
#22. I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an end to the institution of militarism and war and for institutions built on international law and human rights and nonviolent conflict resolution.
Mairead Corrigan
#23. For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.
Doug Davidson
#24. I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
Aimee Mullins
#25. Smoked like it was fuel and he was going to get every last inch to the gallon.
Tana French
#26. If Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code
Woodrow Wilson
#27. If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.
Craig Nelson
#28. The entire stock of relationships which suited in war - militiae - was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace - domi. We have the measure of how right the Romans were in this respect in the experience of the intellectual and moral impoverishment brought about by total mobilisation.
Bertrand De Jouvenel
#30. If there were any justice," said Shale, "one ought to be allowed to use ardent militarists for experiments in peacetime, if one uses pacifists in war. But I suppose they wouldn't volunteer.
Nigel Balchin
#31. Manhattan was kaleidoscopic. Cubist. Just when she was feeling one way, the seasons changed, and so did she.
Lily Koppel
#32. What she really wanted [ ... ] was [ ... ] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit.
Kathy Acker
#33. The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.
Norman Thomas
#34. Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.
Dalai Lama
#35. Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.
William Mulock
#36. We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
Albert Einstein
