Quotes on No War

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

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

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.