| Citat |
Sagt av |
| "Anfall är bästa försvar", sade en fältmarskalk och förlorade kriget. | Hans Haëm |
| Allt krig är vilseledning. | Sun Tzu (544 f.Kr.-496 f.Kr.) |
| Atombomben är en papperstiger som USAs reaktionärer använder för att skrämma folk. | Mao Zedong (1893-1976) |
| Avsikten med alla krig är fred. | Aurelius Augustinus (354-430) |
| Avsikten med alla krig är fred. | Sankt Augustin |
| De brände våra gårdar. De dödade våra män. | Inger Hagerup (1905-1985) |
| Den som tar till svärd skall själv förgås av svärdet. (Matteus) | Biblen |
| Det första som dör i krig är sanningen. | Hiram Warren Johnson |
| Det har aldrig existerat ett bra krig eller en dålig fred. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Det värsta med krig är att det gör oss likadana som det folk vi bekämpar. | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| Döda en och du är mördare. Döda miljoner och du är erövrare. Döda alla och du är Gud. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Ett krig kan alltid vinnas - men hur besegrar man freden? | Michael Holmboe |
| För många är krig till nytta. | Marcus Annæus Lucanus (39-65) |
| Först är kriget hoppet om att det ska gå bra för en själv, sedan förväntan om att det ska gå dåligt för den andre, så tillfredsställelsen över att det inte heller går bra för den andre och till sist överraskningen över att det går dåligt för båda. | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| Historien är full av krig som alla visste aldrig skulle inträffa. | J. Enoch Powell (1912-) |
| I den verkliga krigskonsten är det bäst att ta fiendens land intakt, att söndra och förstöra är inte så bra. | Sun Tzu (544 f.Kr.-496 f.Kr.) |
| I fredstid begraver de unga sina fädrer. I krigen begraver de gamla sina söner. | Herodotos (484 f.Kr.-425 f.Kr.) |
| I krig finns det ersättning för seger | General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) |
| i krig tiger lagen | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| I krigstid är sanningen så dyrbar att den måste förses med en livvakt av lögner. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Jag har aldrig mött någon som inte var emot krig. Till och med Hitler och Mussolini var det, enligt dem själva | Sir David Low (1891-1963) |
| Jorden har större behov av att bli dyrkad än att bli täckt av blod | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Krig finns överallt där det kämpas för fred | Elazar Benyoëtz |
| Krig kommer att upphöra när män vägrar att slåss. | F. Hansen |
| Krig löser inga problem. Det är lika fruktansvärt att vinna ett krig som att förlora det. | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| Krig är alltid av ondo, men det finns tider då det är det minsta av två onda ting. | Ukjent |
| Krig är en för allvarlig sak för att överlåtas till generalerna. | Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| Krig är ett helvete. | William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) |
| Krig är ett naturligt tillstånd. | Napoleon I (1769-1821) |
| Krig är förakt mot liv. | Nordahl Grieg |
| Krig är hjärnskadade spindlar som förstör sin egen spindelväv. | Suzanne Brügger |
| Krig är kapitalism med bara nävarna | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| Krig är lätt att starta, men svårt att stoppa. | Guillaume de Salluste |
| Krig är Preussens nationalexport. | Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti de Mirabeau (1749-1791) |
| Krig är utan tvivel idiotiskt, men det förhindrar det inte från att finnas. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Krigets Gud hatar de som tvekar | Evripides (484 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Manövrer är krigs lekar där de döda får leva tills det blir allvar. | F. X. Neuwirth |
| Pappa, hur kan världens problem lösas av att soldater dödar varandra? | Kalle & Hobbe |
| Patrioter pratar alltid om att dö för sitt land, men aldrig om att dräpa för det. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Påven? Hur många divisioner har han? | Josef Stalin (1880-1953) |
| Skam för den som först kom på krig. det är ju orimligt att folk ska gå och mörda de man inte känner. | Ludvig Holberg |
| Soldaterna vinner kriget, och generalerna får äran för det. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Styrka ligger ej i försvaret men i angreppet. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Krig er ikke annet enn fortsettelsen av politikken med andre midler | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| Krig skaber en overkapacitet af dobbeltsenge. | Aage Madelung |
| Vi genoptager kampen efter vor gamle metode og siger: Angrib! Angrib! Angrib hele tiden! Når nogen siger, de kan da ikke en gang til - Jeg kan ikke bare én gang til, jeg kan ti gange til. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| Vi undrede os over, hvor krigen kom fra, og hvad der gjorde den så modbydelig. Og nu ved vi det, den er inden i os selv. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Jeg har rejst over hele verden, og overalt har jeg fundet militær og militarisme som ødelæggende for al kulturskabende virksomhed. | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Det værste ved krig er, at den gør os ligesom de mennesker, vi bekæmper | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Det, der kaldes pacifismens utopiske drøm, er i virkeligheden den eneste praktiske og realistiske politik, der eksisterer. Men militaristerne er uhelbredeligt romantiske. Manglen på evnen til at fatte kendsgerninger er dem medfødt. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Den dag, hvor to store hære kan udrydde hinanden på ét sekund, vil alt militær blive opløst. | Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) |
| Handel, lønarbejde og krig udnytter menneskerne, i modsætning til agerbruget, som udnytter naturen. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Vi fører krig for at leve i fred. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Der har aldrig været en god krig eller en dårlig fred | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Og de skal smede deres sværd til plovjern, og deres spyd til vingårdsknive. Folk skal ikke løfte sværd imod et andet, og de skulle ikke ydermere øve sig. | Biblen |
| Hvis fædrelandet opdrager sine børn til mordere, og forlanger at de skal gå ud og myrde, da foragter jeg fædrelandet. | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| At være soldat er ligesom at være spejder, bortset fra, at man som spejder er under opsyn af ansvarlige voksne. | Blake Clark (1946-) |
| Afskaffer vi ikke krigen, afskaffer den os. | Carl Scharnberg |
| Hvis indkøb af militærmateriel for tre milliarder kroner betyder beskæftigelse til et tusind mand i 10 år, hvor stor en krig skal der til for at afskaffelse arbejdsløsheden? | Carl Scharnberg |
| Krig er ikke andet end fortsættelse af politik med andre midler. | Carl von Clausewitz |
| Det er betydeligt lettere at dø i skyttegraven end at arbejde 365 dage om året. | Che Guevara (1928-1967) |
| To nationer i kamp er at sammenligne med to berusede personer som slås med krykker i en porcelænsforretning. Bortset fra at de i en lang tid efterfølgende må læges fra deres sår, må de også bagefter betale hele skaden. | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| Skøn er krigen for den uerfarne. | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| At miste en fjende er et stort tab | Drottning Kristina (1626-1689) |
| I skyttegravene er der ingen ateister. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| At acceptere tanken om nederlag er at være slået | Marechal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) |
| Intet er efter min mening mere latterligt end at blive besejret af latterlige fjender | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Skulle man være kynisk, kunne man sige, at den eneste form for genbrug, der fungerer, er leverancerne af forældede våben til kriseområder. | George Bentley |
| Den hurtigste måde at afslutte en krig, er at tabe den. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Krig er en række katastrofer, der ender med sejr. | Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| Under krig tier lovene. | Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) |
| En soldat er en forhenværende civilist, der uddannes til at optræde uciviliseret for at bevare civilisationen | Halfdan Rasmussen |
| Krigen kan begynde på grund af en minutiøst forberedt fejltagelse. | Henrik Tikkanen (1924-1984) |
| Jeg er ikke sikker, men jeg tror ikke, man skal dømme mennesker for hvad handlinger, de gør i en krigssituation. Jeg tror snarere, man skulle dømme dem for det sindelag, de udviser deres venner. | Herman Bang |
| Når folk siger, at der hist og pist er blevet deporteret og mishandlet nogen, kan jeg kun svare, at man ikke kan lave omelet uden at slå æg i stykker. | Hermann Göring |
| Magten taler gennem din lukkede mund. | Ivan Malinovski |
| Historien er fuld af krige, som alle vidste ikke ville komme. | J. Enoch Powell (1912-) |
| Militæret er en plante, som man må passe omhyggeligt, så den ingen frugter bærer. | Jacques Tati (1908-) |
| Menneskeheden må gøre en ende på krigen, ellers vil krigen gøre en ende på menneskeheden. | John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Våben alene er ikke nok til at holde fred - den må holdes af mennesker. | John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Den sikreste måde at undgå krig på er ikke at frygte den. | John Randolph (1915-2004) |
| Ingen ved, hvad en krig er, som ikke har en søn med. | Joseph Marie de Maistre (1753-1821) |
| Et land vil altid have en hær. Hvis et land ikke har sin egen hær, så har den et andet lands. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Hvem er vel så uforstandig, at han vælger krigen frem for freden; under fred bliver fædrene begravet af deres børn, under krig børnene af fædrene. | Krøsos |
| I krig spørges der om, hvad der vindes, ikke om omkostningerne. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| En ting, der bliver opnået med vold, kan man kun beholde med vold. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Jeg er beredt på at dø, men der er ingen sag, som jeg er beredt på at dræbe for. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Det er forkert at straffe mord i fred og belønne mord i krig. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Krig er kun en opfindelse - ikke en biologisk nødvendighed. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| Krig er kun dårskab, sindssyg dårskab, helvedes dårskab. | Martin A. Hansen |
| En atomkrig løser ikke problemerne, eftersom der er fare for, at der er enkelte overlevende. | Mikael Rode |
| En hær marcherer på sin mave. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Krig er netop det, der er nødvendigt. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Bomber vælger ikke. De vil ramme hvad som helst. | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) |
| Jo flere bombefly. jo mindre plads til fredsduer. | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) |
| Der dræbes flere i kro end i krig. | Ordsprog, danske |
| Man lærer kun lidt af sejren, men meget af nederlaget. | Ordsprog, japanske |
| At leve i hærskarernes nærhed er som at sove med en tiger. | Ordsprog, kinesiske |
| Man sejrer aldrig i fjendens rapporter. | Ordsprog, svenske |
| Amerikanerne og englænderne fandt ingen massevåben i Irak. Men de har vel også selv nok af dem i forvejen. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Det er ikke enhver idiot, som kan affyre for eksempel en atombombe. Men det er også fuldt tilstrækkeligt, hvis en enkelt af dem gør det. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Enhver idiot kan se, at krig er galskab. Men det er jo de kloge, der bestemmer. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Hvis tre krigsfly styrter ned, så bliver der ødelagt for, hvad budgettet er for serumvaccine til alle verdens børn på et år. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| Vi ved, at kun en brøkdel af de penge, vi bruger på militæret, kunne sikre basal sundhed for alle i udviklingslande. | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen |
| Man skulle filosofere så længe, til hærførerne bliver anset for at være æselførere. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Jeg vil have koteletterne panerede, men det vil Alvilda ikke - det er på den måde, der opstår krig. | Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949) |
| Krig er hjerneskadede edderkopper, der destruerer deres eget spindelvæv. | Suzanne Brøgger |
| Frygt profeter... og dem, der er parate til at dø for sandheden, for som regel trækker de mange andre med sig i døden. | Umberto Eco (1932-) |
| Et menneske må ikke dræbe, ellers bliver han en morder. To, ti, hundrede mennesker er også mordere, når de dræber. Hvor mange mennesker skal der egentligt til, for at de har lov til at overtræde Guds bud? | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| En krig, der føres under tilsidesættelse af enhver etik, kan aldrig vindes. Der findes også en guddommelig retfærdighed på Jorden. | Wilhelm Canaris |
| Man kan ikke påstå, at civilisationen ikke gør fremskridt. I hver krig slår man ihjel på en helt ny måde. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Der er kun èt svar på nederlag, og det er sejr. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| I krigstid er sandheden så dyrebar, at hun må udstyres med en livvagt af løgne. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Little figures on a little screen showed newsreel footage, talked about the war with maps and pointers, unable to compete as yet with radio. | A. M. Sperber |
| I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. | Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) |
| Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. | Abraham Flexner |
| Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. | Alice Thomas Ellis (1932-) |
| There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. | Alison Lurie (1926-) |
| I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. | Artemus Ward (1834-1867) |
| The chief incalculable in war is the human will. | B. H. Liddell Hart (1895-1970) |
| Guerrillas war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many | B. H. Liddell Hart (1895-1970) |
| America is addicted to wars of distraction | Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-) |
| Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. | Baudouin I (1930-) |
| Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war. | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies | Bruce Kent |
| As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: "My God, what have we done?" | Capt Robert Lewis |
| War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. | Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) |
| World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture. | Caroline Seebohm |
| War hath no fury like a non-combatant | Charles Edward Montague (1867-) |
| War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. | Colman McCarthy |
| In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| All the gods are dead except the god of war | Eldridge Cleaver (1935-) |
| Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. | Ellen Key (1849-1926) |
| The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilization from the barbarians | Emmanuel Goldstein |
| War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth | Ernie Pyle (1900-) |
| I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" | Eve Merriam (1916-) |
| Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. | Francis Meehan |
| It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. | Fred Woodworth |
| They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. | Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-) |
| I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it. | Gen Mark W. Clark |
| War is fear cloaked in courage. | Gen William C. Westmoreland |
| Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. | Gen William C. Westmoreland |
| I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war | George Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. | George Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. | George McGovern (1922-) |
| War is not inevitable, but proceeds from definite and removable causes | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson |
| If we don't end war, war will end us. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Every war is a national misfortune | Helmeth von Moltke |
| Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. | Herbert V. Prochnow |
| Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for | Hermann Goering (1893-) |
| That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore. | Hirohito (1901-1989) |
| It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) |
| Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. | Jacques Chirac (1932-) |
| National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction. | Jacques Chirac (1932-) |
| In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion | James Reston (1909-1995) |
| When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. | Janet Flanner (1892-1978) |
| As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else | Jeanette Rankin |
| Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood | Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) |
| War is the science of destruction. | John Abbott (1821-) |
| The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. | John Arbuthnot Fisher (1841-) |
| War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces | John Reed (1887-1920) |
| War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections | Joseph Sobran |
| A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. | Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) |
| In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. | Jose Narosky |
| War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| War is the symptom, not the disease. | L. M. Heroux |
| The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness. | Larry Summers |
| The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. | Lester B. Pearson (1897-1972) |
| Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity | Lord Kitchener |
| Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. | Lucy Ellman |
| War is what happens when language fails | Margaret Atwood (1939-) |
| Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. | Mordecai Wyatt Johnson |
| Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million. | Norman Thomas (1884-1968) |
| Arrived too late. Act already done. | Nostradamus (1503-) |
| Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood? | Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) |
| War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| All history, of course, is the history of wars | Penelope Lively (1933-) |
| No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. | Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) |
| It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorance of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the sedition of the city, with the discords of families. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it. | Robert S. McNamara |
| I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so | Romain Rolland (1866-1944) |
| War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep | Samuel Ha-Nagid |
| To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to | Sam Houston (1793-1863) |
| I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. | Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) |
| I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass. | Sir David Low (1891-1963) |
| We do not want any more wars, but a man is a damn fool to think there will not be any more of them | Smedly Butler |
| War would end if the dead could return. | Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) |
| After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century. | Stella Blum |
| War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. | Thomas Mann (1875-1955) |
| He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded | Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| War challenges virtually every other institution of society-the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy | Walter Millis |
| War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed | William McKinley (1843-1901) |
| War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over. | William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) |
| I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. | William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) |
| I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. | Abba Eban (1915-2002) |
| One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. | Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) |
| I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. | Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
| The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums | Arthur Koestler (1905-1938) |
| The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill | Duke Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) |
| Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| War is the unfolding of miscalculations. | Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) |
| I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. | Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) |
| War is sweet to those who have not experienced it | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. | General George S. Patton (1885-1945) |
| War is a series of disasters which result in a winner | George Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire | George F. Will (1941-) |
| The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| War is the trade of kings. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) |
| War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| War is the province of danger. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun | Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) |
| Burning dinner is not incompetence but war | Marge Piercy (1936-) |
| There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war. | Marianne Moore (1887-1972) |
| There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization | Omar Bradley (Nelson) (1893-1981) |
| It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology | Rebecca West (1892-1983) |
| War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre | Robert Graves (1895-1985) |
| I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and York | Sam Houston (1793-1863) |
| In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. | Sun Tzu (544 f.Kr.-496 f.Kr.) |
| To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking | William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) |
| When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. | Jose Narosky |
| I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so | Romain Rolland (1866-1944) |
| It is not known with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. | Colman McCarthy |
| War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity | Lord Kitchener |
| Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) |
| It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| War is like a big machine that no one really knows how to run and when it gets out of control it ends up destroying the things you thought you were fighting for, and a lot of other things you kinda forgot you had. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Det har indtil for få år siden været umuligt at forklare en grønlænder, hvad verdenskrig er. Nu er de snart tilstrækkelig "kultiveret" til at begribe det. | Poul Henningsen (1894-1967) |
| We will always strike first. We will always deliver the first blow. | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| I see no reason why this war must go on | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| I really thought we'd win that | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth... rocks." | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. | Alison Lurie (1926-) |
| All's fair in love and war. | American Proverb |
| It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| We will go to the sun of freedom or to the death; if we die, our cause will continue living. | Augusto Sandino (1978-) |
| America is addicted to wars of distraction | Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-) |
| Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. | Baudouin I (1930-) |
| The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| There never was a good war or a bad peace. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men.For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| War is like love, it always finds a way | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword | Bible |
| It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to weaken truth, and serve only to make it stronger. All the lights of truth are powerless to stop violence, and serve only | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masks | Bob Dylan (1941-) |
| It fell like a tear from my eye, flying machine so up high.Well... there goes the neighborhood. | Brandon Boyd |
| If I were an Al Qaeda guy, I wouldn't go out for a pizza. | Bryan Hilferty |
| They create a desolation and call it peace. | Calgacus |
| Under no circumstances should we now ease our restrictions on arms sales to Iran. Such a policy reversal would be seen as inexplicably inconsistent by those nations whom we have urged to refrain from such sales, and would likely lead to increased arms sales by them and a possible alteration of the strategic balance in favor of Iran while (the Ayatollah) Khomeini is still the controlling influence. | Caspar W. Weinberger |
| War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Cards are war, in disguise of a sport | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war. | Chinese Proverbs |
| When I first started here, I was sitting in the ditch thinking, `What the heck did I do? Texas in August, the chiggers, fire ants, rattlesnakes, uncomfortable accommodations' _ but I'm going to be sad leaving here, ... I hope people will say that the Camp Casey movement sparked a peace movement that ended the war in Iraq. | Cindy Sheehan |
| I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I was not sure we had enough troops. The case was made, it was listened to, it was considered. … A judgment was made by those responsible that the troop strength was adequate. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. | Croesus of Lydia |
| I-I am going to be a storm-a flame-I need to fight whole armies alone;I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals-BRING ME GIANTS! | Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-) |
| People always make war when they say they love peace | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| Why don't presidents fight the war?/ Why do they always send the poor? ... B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs). | Daron Malakian |
| War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. | Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) |
| The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets. | Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) |
| In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash. | General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) |
| Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war | General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) |
| I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. | General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) |
| Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers, | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Last night I had the strangest dream ~~ I ever dreamed before ~~ I dreamed the world had all agreed ~~ To put an end to war | Earle McCurdy |
| You killed a hundred thousand people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym! | Eddie Izzard (1962-) |
| All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war. | Edward Grey (1862-) |
| I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. | Ellen Key (1849-1926) |
| Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| For when established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. | Erik Erikson, Dr. |
| Wars are caused by undefended wealth. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. | Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-) |
| What was taken by force, can only be restored by force. | Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-) |
| I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. | General George S. Patton (1885-1945) |
| The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. | General George S. Patton (1885-1945) |
| War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men | George Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| War makes thieves and peace hangs them. | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| War is the father of all things. But who is the mother? | Gerhard Kocher |
| It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| After the war, aid | Greek proverb |
| Whats so civil about war anyway? | Guns N' Roses |
| If we don't end war, war will end us. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| War is not one disaster of milions of people. War is milions of disasters of one person. | Hans van Mierlo (1931-) |
| In the Long Run Luck is awarded to the efficient | Helmeth von Moltke |
| You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free. | Heraclitus of Ephesus |
| When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. | Howard Zinn (1922-) |
| "It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank) | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) |
| The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country. | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) |
| Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. | Jacques Chirac (1932-) |
| War then, is a relation - not between man and man: but between state and state; and individuals are enemies only accidentally: not as men, nor even as citizens: but as soldiers; not as members of their country, but as its defenders | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| You spoil the sacraments of the Church, you tear up the articles of the Faith, you destroy the churches, you break and burn the statues which were set up as memorials, you massacre Christians because they preserve the true Faith. What is this fury? Or what rage or madness consumes you? This faith, which God Almighty, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have revealed, established, elevated to power, and glorified a thousand ways through miracles - you persecute this Faith, you wish to overthrow and destroy it. You are blind, but not because you lack eyes or understanding. Do you believe that you will remain unpunished for it? Or are you unaware that God opposes your unlawful efforts and will not permit you to remain in darkness and error? So that the more you indulge yourselves in crime and sacrilege, the more He will prepare great punishments and anguish for you. As far as I am concerned, to tell you frankly, if I wasn't occupied in the English wars I would have come to see you a long time ago; but if I don't find out that you have reformed yourselves I might leave off [fighting] the English and go against you, so that by iron, if I can't do it any other way, I will eliminate your mad and obscene superstition and remove your heresy or your life; but if you would prefer to return to the Catholic faith and the original Light, then send your ambassadors to me and I will tell them what you need to do; if [on the other hand] you are not willing and if you obstinately resist the spur, remember what damage and offenses you have committed and await me, who will inflict similar upon you with forces human and divine. | Joan of Arc (1412-1431) |
| You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further. | Joan of Arc (1412-1431) |
| ...in God's name I command you to let me know as soon as you are aware of the arrival of Fastolf; because if he should pass without my knowledge, I promise you that I will have [your] head removed. | Joan of Arc (1412-1431) |
| War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. | John Gay (1685-1732) |
| In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields. | John McCrae (1872-) |
| An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it | John Paul Jones (1747-1792) |
| To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given | John Updike (1932-) |
| No longer a city, but a burnt-out prarie. How empty Hiroshima looks without it's homes. | John Ziff |
| And then you've got Lieberman, who is for the war. And thinks the tax cuts could really help. He's basically for people who want to vote for Bush but don't think Bush is Jewish enough. | Jon Stewart (1962-) |
| The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation. | Jonathon Larson |
| War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections | Joseph Sobran |
| Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Using the Oval office to lead your troops into a war born of blatant deception makes you a murderer and a war criminal. | Jules Carlysle (1970-) |
| War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell | Karl Popper |
| Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. | Karl von Clausewitz (1780-) |
| In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile. | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-) |
| Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race. | L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) |
| You would not tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person. | L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) |
| The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of the aftermath. | Led Zeppelin |
| 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 | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press. | Lewis H. Lapham |
| War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| Endless money forms the sinews of war. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| "WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR." | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| God had to come back. . . He had to reward those who had suffered in this war that He allowed to take place. | Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) |
| War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I was feeling into words. Tonight, I'd like to let you know, that even before I met John Kerry, he was my brother. Even before I knew John Kerry, he was my friend. Even before I spoke with John Kerry, he gave me hope. | Max Cleland (1942-) |
| It's not victory if it doesn't end the war. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down. | Mitch Albom (1958-) |
| In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. | Newt Gingrich (1943-) |
| 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. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America | Patrick Buchanan (1938-) |
| Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. | Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) |
| War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. | Proverb |
| Another such victory, and we are undone. | Pyrrhus |
| War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| The purpose of all wars...is peace. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the enemy of mankind, that can choose to snatch, by violence and bloodshed, what gentler means can equally obtain | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| They are playing politics with this issue, and sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. That is irresponsible. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| In this time of war, and in memory of our fallen heroes, we must be mindful to do everything in our power to keep our troops safe as they keep us safe. We must do better to take care of their families, who sacrifice in ways too many count. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Well, you know, when I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the war. But the president made a mistake in invading Iraq. Which is worse? | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| This administration misled a nation into war by cherry-picking intelligence and stretching the truth beyond recognition. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance. | Stanley Milgram |
| First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot easier to say, than the first thing I ever killed was a man. | Steve Mason |
| Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. | Sun Tzu (544 f.Kr.-496 f.Kr.) |
| There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. | Sun Tzu (544 f.Kr.-496 f.Kr.) |
| All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. | Sun Tzu (544 f.Kr.-496 f.Kr.) |
| Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. | Sun Tzu (544 f.Kr.-496 f.Kr.) |
| War is based on deception. | Sun Tzu (544 f.Kr.-496 f.Kr.) |
| I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps. | Ted Kennedy |
| Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the loaves and fishes which arise out of war expenses, as for the chance of changing the Constitution | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. | Thomas Mann (1875-1955) |
| He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. | Thomas Payne |
| If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils. | Thomas Stonewall Jackson |
| Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. | Tony Blair (1953-) |
| Have you ever stopped to think? We're old enough to go to war...but we ain't old enough to drink. | Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) |
| A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil. | Vanna Bonta |
| Poverty and War have no excuse. | Vanna Bonta |
| We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I. | Vanna Bonta |
| Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem. | Vanna Bonta |
| The real war will never get in the books | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace. | Walter H. Pater |
| The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| 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. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| I intend to make Georgia howl." | William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) |
| 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. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| War is a catalouge of blunders. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians. | Yves Montand |
| Atombomben er både kjekk og grei. Men vi har ikke noe naturlig miljø for den her på øvre Singsaker. | Flettfrid Andresen |
| Atomvåpen testes hensynsfullt i ubebygde områder, slik at man hensynsløst kan bruke dem i tettbebygde områder. | Wolfgang Binde |
| Den viktigste innvending mot en krangel er at den avbryter en diskusjon. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| I en atomkrig vil hele menneskeheten tape. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Inter arma silent leges (I krig tier lover) | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Jeg vet ikke hvordan den 3. verdenskrig vil se ut, men jeg vet at den neste vil bli utkjempet med treklubber. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |