Wars Quotes

1277 quotes by 964 authors

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. — U Thant
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. — Richard Hughes
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis… — Tim Bray
The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars. — David Prowse
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to… — Michael Rostovtzeff
If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars. — George William Norris
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of… — Bruce Jackson
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. — Bruce Jackson
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. — Bruce Jackson
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has… — Bruce Jackson
In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy… — James Monroe
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. — Karl Liebknecht
As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in… — Joseph Rotblat
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution… — John Boyd Orr
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated… — Emily Greene Balch
We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to… — James F. Byrnes
And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. — George Wald
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the… — Martin Sheen
None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives. — Jake Lloyd

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