Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom.

— Arthur Helps

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

— James Anthony Froude

“Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which…

— Edmund Burke

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

— Orson Scott Card

Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides,…

— Vivien Leigh

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in…

— Mark Twain

When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when you exclude…

— Henry Giroux

“The poets, when they speak of war, talk of the shield wall, they talk of the spears and arrows flying, of the blade beating…

— Bernard Cornwell

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had…

— Manfred von Richthofen

“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.' 'If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never…

— Orson Scott Card

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

— Steve Scalise

Never start a war with something you can't talk to.

— C. J. Cherryh

Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which…

— Charles Clayton Morrison

There are two tendencies in all our war talk… The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“Peace requires a discipline more iron than war. - Easter, 1939 ”

— W.J. Turner