Quotes on War

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.

If you can't afford to take care of your #‎ veterans , then don't go to war.

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a “NO” which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the “NO” to war.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.

World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.