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“By what miracle has this poor nation managed to stay so good, so welcoming, so joyful for so long, despite its poverty, despite injustice, prejudice, and our many civil wars?...Despite the ruins, despite the poverty, our little town remains beautiful. I realize this once in a while, in jolts of awareness. Habit destroys pleasure. (p8)”
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we witness in Indian civilization is that it never allows religious conflicts to become fully blown religious wars against any religious sect. The basic underlying dictum that has emerged from this understanding is enshrined in the Vedic statement that the one Truth is perceived in various ways.”
Aravindan Neelakandan (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To build peace all the causes of discord among men, which generate wars must disappear; especially injustice.”
Fabio Duque Jaramillo (1950–2022) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The suspension of the hydroelectric project El Quimbo requested by the population (18 November 2016) Fides News Agency
“It has become clear that real wars are fought not for people or fatherlands, but take place between different media, information technologies, data flows.”
Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The president's threats to NATO and the U.N. are no more logical than arson. His trade wars with the E.U. and China could trigger the next great economic crisis of our times. Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath. He is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of Western progress for so long.”
David Lammy (born 1972) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I'm a British Lawmaker. Here's Why I'm Protesting Trump’s Visit to the U.K.", Time (10 July 2018)
“Anger about the wars isn't the only reason voters support Mr. Trump. But his willingness to say what other G.O.P. candidates won't reflects what people like most about him: his complete break with the party elite. Because the last time Republican voters put a member of that elite in the White House, he sent their children on a bloody misadventure.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Trump’s Antiwar Message Resonates with White America", The New York Times (April 4, 2016)
“Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I say what I know and what I know is certain. I have been involved in five wars, on the front lines, even though I am only 34 years old. When you Western boys were still messing around with some girl in the back seat of a car, I was already killing terrorists in Chechnya.”
Nicolai Lilin (born 1980) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with Giovanni Mari (28 June 2014), "Maidan, «l'ultimo golpe degli Usa in fallimento», Il Secolo XIX
“The history of the United States has been the history of a series of military interventions and aggressions, direct or indirect, real or fake wars. All to favor the private interests of private economic groups. A typical Anglo-Saxon style, moreover. They have not invented anything. They conquer territories, intervene in other people's affairs, only to grab money, allies, business.”
Nicolai Lilin (born 1980) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with Giovanni Mari (28 June 2014), "Maidan, «l'ultimo golpe degli Usa in fallimento», Il Secolo XIX
“I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.”
Nancy Wake (1912–2011) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in David Fickling, "A belated salute for war heroine", The Guardian (23 February 2004)
“it is our prime concern to address injustices and empowerment issues regarding the youth and women such as education and economic empowerment. Women, historically and traditionally due to several conflicts, continue to bear the brunt of wars the most and areas such severally affected and marginalized.”
Suzanne Jambo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In science, you are dealing with facts. You prove them or dispute them, not the complicated stories of wars that happened before we were born.”
Alice Nabatanzi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...Humanitarian crises, such as natural disasters, wars, famine, etc., make it imperative to work together. Governments are hardly capable of addressing everyone’s needs during those times, so folks often come together naturally. That has led to the formation of numerous of our Interreligious Councils.”
Azza Karam (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet Somaliland is a country whose history is totally hidden. With wars, droughts and piracy in Somalia, hardly anyone has researched the archaeology until now. But it's absolutely full of extraordinarily well-preserved rock art.”
“In all, $1 of every $5 the federal government spent in 2011 went to defense, and about 20 cents of that $1 was spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
David Wessel (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The great pre-Christian civilizations of Greece and Rome had no religious wars and had a far healthier view of their frolicking gods and goddesses than the intolerant monotheistic Christianity that later came to dominate Europe.”
Jean-Pierre Lehmann (1945–2017) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lehmann, Jean-Pierre The Dangers of Monotheism in the Age of Globalization The Globalist.com - Global Development Thursday, March 30, 2006
“Between the 1980s and now the image of famine and wars has been ingrained in people’s minds. That’s a narrative that’s going to be hard to shift,”
Aisha Augie-Kuta (born 1980) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: McKenzie, Sheenah (25 July 2012). "Filmmaker aims to explode Africa 'bombs and bullets' myth". CNN. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
“have covered so many wars in so many countries. In Iraq, you could always have got unlucky and caught up in a suicide bombing. In Lebanon, there had been safe areas and risky ones. In Libya, for the most part, it was clearer who was fighting and who was a non-combatant.”
Zohra Bensemra (born 1968) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bensemra, Zohra. "My Journey into Syria". Reuters. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
“If Humanity can be saved and this Pale Blue Dot transformed into a really good place to live, at least without poverty and wars, then not by people who see life as worthless and spend it dreaming of mansions of gold in an imaginary world, but by people who don’t flee from reality and are guided not by primitive mythological beings, but by reason: freethinkers.”
Paulo Bittencourt (1892–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I spent 65 years in air force cockpits and fought in four wars, but I never looked at it as an adventure. It’s duty. You could say that the most important thing I did was break the sound barrier. That’s the reason we’re on the moon. But it was my job to try. That’s the way I looked at it. Whatever the outcome, it didn’t really make much difference to me.”
Chuck Yeager (1923–2020) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life Advice from Chuck Yeager" (2009)
“Europe has been set on a clear course, walls of mistrust have been brought down, families have been reunited and wars have been extinguished.”
Valdas Adamkus (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Watchin' Star Wars, smokin' pot. I take what I got, I live till it stops.”
“Are elections not held in Iraq and Afghanistan which are waging serious wars against terrorists? Is INEC going to appoint sole administrators for the three states at the end of the tenure of the governors and other elected public officers? Apart from conducting flawed elections why is INEC not interested in promoting civic education which is one of its core statutory duties?”
Femi Falana (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is in a state of slumber, a sinful sleep. God awakens it with wars, plagues, fires, destructive storms, earthquakes, floods, and crop failures.”
John of Kronstadt (1829–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can all join that most worthwhile of all wars—the fight for tolerance, the fight for wisdom, the fight for freedom. Above all else, continue to develop your tastes—material and spiritual—so that you may learn to choose the best values from life's many alternatives.”
Carl Borgmann (1905–1998) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: UVM President Bids Farewell in Graduation Talk". The Springfield Union. Associated Press. June 16, 1958. p. 10.
“Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” —Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
Kate Darling (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While men are struggling for power women are organising themselves into clubs, associations and societies. When women gather they do not talk about the wars in various parts of the world or the deceitfulness of world politicians; they discuss educational problems, family planning, home economics; they learn new crafts, and improved methods of looking after the family.”
Miriam Muwanga (died 1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During various epochs in history, the Aghartan supermen or gods came to the surface to teach the human race and save it from wars, catastrophes and destruction. The coming of the flying saucers soon after the first atomic explosion in Hiroshima represents another such visitation, but this time the gods themselves did not appear among men, but they sent their emissaries.”
Walter Siegmeister (1903–1965) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Hollow Earth (1963), p. 211
“As much as I can help it, I don’t engage in word wars.”
Jaya (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These kids, they do not need us to win wars for them. They need us to build a world for them that will allow them to dream, to grow, to live.”
Nicole Cordoves (born 1992) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nicole Cordoves is 1st runner-up at Miss Grand International 2016 GMA Network, 26 October 2016.
“I always lived with her [Romina Power] knowing that it could be the last day. But I always defended our marriage tooth and nail. My ego and alter ego wage their inner wars inside me. But when the end of the marriage came, it was really hard to accept. Love can be born and it can die, it is written, but I didn't like how it died.”
Albano Carrisi (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the past, history has been devoted chiefly to the exploits of heroes and the story of wars; but history is now being speedily reorganized and rewritten upon a scientific basis, to exhibit the growth of culture in all its grand departments. History itself is now a science, and is no longer an art in which men exploit in rhetorical paragraphs.”
John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is not the time for senseless wars; instead, politicians must foster an atmosphere of unity and engage in peace dialogues to address the challenges faced by the public.”
Matthew Remijio Adam Gbitiku (born 1972) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Escalation in South Sudan: Christian churches appeal for a peaceful solution (27 March 2025) Fides News Agency
“There is a distinctively observable urban-rural dimension to immigrant settlement patterns: basically, the cities are radically more heterogenous than the countryside. Thus, logically, we may conclude that civil wars in the West that burn across ethnic cleavages will have a distinctively rural vs. urban character.”
David Betz (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nigeria has only one issue troubling it, bad leadership. Every other issue – bad followership, corruption, poverty, squalor, disease, human and infrastructural undevelopment, ritual and political killings, cultism and examination malpractice, intra-country wars and militancy of different names, etc. – all stem from bad leadership.”
Sam Ukala (1948–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though we fought no freedom wars”
Dike Chukwumerije wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.”
George Ayittey (1945–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will put blood on the streets like you’ve never seen. And advocate more violence than both world wars put together.”
Tom Metzger (1938–2020) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1990 WAR telephone message, quoted by SPLC
“All women are fighters... It is just that we fight different wars. My mother carrying a gun doesn't make her stronger than your mother, who's been fighting for you since your father left.”
Sulaiman Addonia (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would like to see an end to wars and women presidents who would better develop our continent.”
Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The balance of domestic security, excellent financial management of the crown’s resources, and realistic aspirations in foreign affairs made Henry’s reign the important transition between the political disorder of the Wars of the Roses and the strident, confident Tudor monarchies that followed him.”
Sean Cunningham (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.”
Napoleon (misattributed) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There is no known basis to attribute this saying to Napoleon. It is found (unattributed) in a Usenet post from July 1999.
“Bloody wars at first began, The artificial plague of man, That from his own invention rise, To scourge his own iniquities.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Europe needs an army to fight the resource wars of the twenty-first century.”
Jacques Delors (misattributed) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variations of this have circulated among Irish and left-wing Eurosceptic groups. Delors explicitly denied making any such statement in 1992 and 1998 in the leadup to Irish referendums on the Maastricht and Amsterdam tre…
“Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“No matter how many wars may still have to be fought, we shall need to work out some alternative to warfare if we are to have a common future in this part of the world.”
Jacqueline Kahanoff wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom!" their battle-cry,— "Freedom! or leave to die!”
George Henry Boker (1823–1890) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Black Regiment", stanza 5, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 101.
“The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away.”
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source