Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Amis

The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about whether Bolshevik Russia was better than America.

Pope Benedict XVI

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nuclear arms, or those planning to acquire them- agree to change their course by clear and firm decision and strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament. The resources which would be saved could then be employed in projects of development capable of benefiting all their people, especially the poor.

Pope John Paul II

Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Pope John Paul II

Never again war. Never again hatred and intolerance.

Pope John Paul II

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war...

Pope John Paul II

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Pope John Paul II

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

Pietro Metastasio

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

Pierre Cardin

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Philippe Perrin

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone

Philippe Falardeau

Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you look at history, history is just a succession of people meeting other people, either through commerce, voyages or wars.

Philippa Gregory

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

Philip Kearny

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Philip Kearny

I can make men follow me to hell.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

Pope Francis

States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.

Pope Francis

War is not to be waged in the name of God.

Pope Francis

Violence and war lead only to death...

Pope Francis

In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,... I underscore the verb 'stop.' I'm not saying 'bomb' or 'make war,' just 'stop.' And the means that can be used to stop them must be evaluated.

Pope Francis

The political struggle against marriage equality is war

Pope Francis

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Pope Francis

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,

Pope Francis

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Pope Francis

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

Pope Francis

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

Pope Francis

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

Pope Francis

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

Rachel Caine

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

Rachel Caine

shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

Peter Yarrow

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Peter McWilliams

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

Pete Stark

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.