Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly
that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the 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 tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
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.
- Albert Einstein
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What is human warfare but just this;
an effort to make the laws of God and
nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
We may never be strong enough to be entirely
nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
But we must keep nonviolence as our goal
and make strong progress towards it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying
as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide,
you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension...
would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
Morality is contraband in war.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
War will exist until that distant day
when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige
that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
What difference does it make to the dead,
the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
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