Top 100 No War Quotes
#1. War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
Chief Joseph
#2. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Leo Tolstoy
#3. If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.
Carrie Snow
#4. First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.
Elizabeth Berg
#5. I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.
J. Budziszewski
#7. There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.
John Pilger
#8. To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.
Hannah Senesh
#9. We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
John Galsworthy
#10. Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
Fidel Castro
#11. War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.
Albert Kesselring
#12. I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
#13. For Tempus ... was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves ...
Janet Morris
#14. You can't lose this war, because your Father has already won. This isn't a battle of skin and bones, flesh and blood. This is about your faith, about your identity. When you discover who you truly are, you discover there is no war left to fight at all.
Rachelle Dekker
#15. The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
Jerry Brown
#16. We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years.
Gordon Brown
#17. The war was a long way away. Maybe there wasn't any war. There was no war here. Then I realized it was over for me. But I did not have the feeling that it was really over. I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant.
Ernest Hemingway,
#18. There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
Greg Bear
#19. If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
Bobby Thomson
#21. There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.
Harold W. Dodds
#22. We laughed and talked like a normal couple. No demons, no war.
Karen Swart
#23. There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.
Sherrod Brown
#24. Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
Gerald Kersh
#25. Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#26. Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#27. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
Charles Kettering
#28. Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.
Richard E. Byrd
#30. If there were no war, if there was peace in the world, I'd say fine, have fun! But, Montag, you mustn't go back to being just a fireman. All isn't well with the world.
Ray Bradbury
#31. My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
Roseanne Barr
#32. I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. There is no war where only one side is the bad guy.
Tamura Yumi
#34. If things were different, if there were no revolution, no war, no threads of light, if he were rich, would he go back to London with her and ask for her hand in marriage? He smiled, for the answer was simple. Yes, yes, he would.
Sally Gardner
#35. Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall ...
Andrew Marvell
#36. The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.
Menno Simons
#37. When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
Confucius
#38. War or no war, you will and always will be my queen
Kailin Gow
#39. No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
Colin Powell
#40. No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider
PureDragonWolf
#41. If everyone empowers themselves with power of their love, there will be only happiness and no war.
Debasish Mridha
#42. No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.
James Mattis
#43. Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
Aaron Sorkin
#44. And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.
Jimi Hendrix
#45. We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.
David Ben-Gurion
#46. If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war.
Mark Kurlansky
#47. The Irish 'n Polacks always get along- didn't ya ever notice? Irish 'n Polacks live on p'tatoes 'n got it in for Hitler, that's why they get along so good; all over the world. Never heard of no war between Poland 'n Ireland, did you? No sir, that's cause we're all Cath'lics.
Nelson Algren
#49. If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
#50. No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
Eugene V. Debs
#51. All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.
Walter Russell
#53. I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.
Robert Anderson
#54. Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?" "No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale.
Seth Dickinson
#55. There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
John Le Carre
#56. No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
Zelda Popkin
#57. No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.
Erich Fromm
#59. If everyone practices the power of their love, there will be happiness and no war.
Debasish Mridha
#60. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.
Will Durant
#61. No war. Fight with your pen. Give your battle-cry in ink, and mark your dreams down on a page
Susan Fletcher
#62. I study the chessboard and concede defeat.
"You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.
Haruki Murakami
#63. Will you stay in Germany?'
'No. Somewhere different.'
'Like where?'
'Somewhere there was no war. Ireland maybe.
Audrey Magee
#64. Godless, 'we had no war.'
Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
John Milton
#66. There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's normal.
Albert Camus
#67. If no war in heaven, then defeat ain't misery.
Toba Beta
#68. No war was ever fought for so many different reasons.
Harper Lee
#69. No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
Gustav Krupp
#70. At that instant i knew there was no horror the world could offer - no war, no genocide, no famine, no childhood cancer - to which Sidney Kroll would not see the funny side
Robert Harris
#71. No war today could be called just, given the inevitable level of casualties and atrocities.
Walter Wink
#72. I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!
Barbara Lee
#73. To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#74. I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.
Thom Yorke
#75. War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
Charles Sumner
#76. Peace does not mean no war ... peace means Love
Sameh Elsayed
#77. Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs. And when there's no war on, it fades wallpaper.
Michel Faber
#78. Well I think what - the way things have improved obviously is that the killing has stopped in so for as there is no war. But if you talk to people in the north and east in general, there is a concern that the freedom that they expected as a consequence of the end of the war has yet to be realised.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
#79. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.
Aleksandr Voinov
#80. No war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.
Margaret Case Harriman
#81. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.
John F. Kennedy
#82. If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You think we go to another country to bring democracy? We go there 'cause there's oil, resources or something we need.
Jacque Fresco
#83. To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.
Daniel Pipes
#84. With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.
Kenneth Waltz
#85. There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.
Jocelyn Murray
#86. War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness.
Zlata Filipovic
#88. What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
Ron Paul
#89. There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#90. Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.
Tracy Banghart
#91. In this room we understand why this war might be fought ... it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other
no matter what their species.
Deborah Harkness
#92. No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.
Kelly Link
#93. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Douglas MacArthur
#94. Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
Luc De Clapiers
#95. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.
Dale Spender
#96. When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.
Douglas Brinkley
#97. This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Wilhelm Keitel
#98. In war, God is always on your side, no matter which side you're on. God is invincible, but one side always loses. Nobody seems to see the fallacy in this.
Elliot MacDonald
#99. I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No ... but I served in a company of heroes.'
Richard Winters
#100. If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
George R R Martin
