Best War Quotes

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

There is nothing moderate about an ideology of endless mass military slaughter abroad and ever-tightening authoritarianism and economic exploitation at home.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don’t care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain’t over till it’s over.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so — without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

Because I know war… because I know the horror, I don’t want to add to it. After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

It’s almost like the fog of war. After the war is over, you then look back and say, ‘Wow, this plan, as great as it was, didn’t quite work once they started that throwing hand grenades at us.’ It really is similar to that.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.