War Quotes

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.