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“After the [second world] war, thousands of Ukrainians moved to Canada... But possible links and sympathies to the Nazis were largely overlooked as the Cold War set in.”
Ivan Katchanovski (born 1967) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Canada has a dark history with Nazis’: political scandal prompts reckoning (2023)
“I am in favor of no more war but as long as war clouds hover over the earth, as a citizen, I feel we should be prepared for the worst.”
Audie Murphy (1924–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quotation from Audie Murphy: American Soldier", by Harold Simpson (1999), pp. 369-371
“Our country has never in its history been involved in a war as controversial and as frustrating as the bitter struggle in which we are now engaged in Southeast Asia. No war has ever been fought under more trying circumstances, yet our young men in the field fight on with courage and a high morale never surpassed in the history of the Republic.”
Audie Murphy (1924–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do understand what this war is about. Maybe for those who live far away from this war (they) don’t really understand the situation the same way we do,”
Katalin Novák (born 1977) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hungarian president warns of coming ‘demographic ice age’ in BYU speech Deseret News (September 27,2023)
“As to the state of public affairs, it seems to me that war is inevitable—that war, if it comes, must a little sooner or a little later, place the government in Pitt's hands; and that this ought to be the wish of every man, who thinks it at all material to himself, whether Bonaparte shall or not treat us in twelve months, precisely in the style he has now treated the Swiss.”
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759–1834) first seen 1802 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Marquess of Buckingham (20 October 1802), quoted in The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Memoirs of the Court of George the Third. From Original Family Documents. Vol. III (1855), p. 214
“I am a woman and I do not love war, but rather than accepting this (colonialism) I prefer war.”
Taytu Betul (1851–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During Jihad (religion war), many men and women become war captives. The Amirul Mu’minin [leader of the believers, or caliph—an office now vacant] has the choice of distributing them amongst the Mujahidin [warriors of jihad], in which event they will become the property of these Mujahidin. This enslavement is the penalty for disbelief (kufr).”
Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri (1925–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tafsir Anwarul Bayan , I, 501. about Quran 4.3.Muhammad Aashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri, Illuminating Discourses on the Noble Qur’an (Tafsir Anwarul Bayan ), Afzal Hussain Elias and Muhammad Arshad Fakhri, trans. (Karachi: Da…
“As a peace-loving people, and as members of the world community of peoples, we recognize clearly that science has raced ahead of man's readiness to deal with all the complexities of what science has created. With the advent of nuclear weapons, war has ceased to offer a solution for disputes among nations. War has become, not only out-of-date, but senseless.”
Lewis Strauss (1896–1974) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks Prepared by Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, for delivery to Joint U.S .- Canada Civil Defense Committee Battle Creek, Michigan, Oct. 19, 1956
“To me the Great War was from the first the White Civil War, which, whatever its outcome, must gravely complicate the course of racial relations.”
Lothrop Stoddard (1883–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.”
Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Within fifteen years of the war’s end, totalitarianism, a new word for a system that rejected the liberalism and constitutionalism which had inspired European politics since the eclipse of monarchy in 1789, was almost everywhere on the rise. Totalitarianism was the political continuation of war by other means.”
John Keegan (1934–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Russia must be brought to justice for its crimes. Every war criminal must be brought before a tribunal. All material and moral damages caused to Ukraine, including lost profits due to the war, must be compensated through the mechanism of reparations.”
Kyrylo Budanov (born 1986) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kyrylo Budanov: I have No Doubt That War Will End in Russia’s Defeat" in gur.gov.ua (February 28, 2024)
“During the Anfal anti-Kurdish campaign in 1987 as many as 180,000 Kurds disappeared. At Halabja, in one incident alone, more people were killed than in the whole of this latest Gulf war. The most conservative death toll attached to the repression of the Shia uprising in 1991 was 30,000. One million died in the Iran-Iraq war started by Saddam. And this is reduced by Pilger to "hundreds every year".”
David Aaronovitch (born 1954) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lies and the Left", The Observer (27 April 2003), p. 29
“the war makers have tried for more than a year to persuade the American people and the American college student to become enthusiastic targets in the war, and, having failed, must now resort to extraordinary methods of intimidation and terror.”
Morris Schappes (1907–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: JD Vance Bungles Basic History While Talking Russia-Ukraine Negotiations" Huffington Post (August 24, 2025)
“The time was the era shortly after the First World War when waves of post-war immigration carried to the new world like rotting bilge water all the bitter hatreds, prejudices and venoms of Tsarist Russia and Poland.”
Irene Levine Paull (1908–1981) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The War Against the Gentiles", short story originally published in Jewish Currents (1966) included in Irene: Selected Writings of Irene Paull (1996)
“In war, I had no time for understanding. It’s really fast and you think only of your mission. If you start to think about morality, you will die, because you lose control. You can’t think about life, you must think only of war so you will survive.”
Nicolai Lilin (born 1980) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with Jay Richardson (30 March 2022), "Nicolai Lilin: Author of Siberian Education", List.co.uk
“The majority of Russians are happy and actually want to support this policy more. When we talk about protests by Russians who do not want to go to war, it is all bullshit. Russians want to go to war and they want to defeat Nazism.”
Nicolai Lilin (born 1980) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with Diana Mihaylova (16 February 2024), "Lilin: 'Navalny? Nazista xenofobo. L'intervista a Putin di Carlson? Ha cambiato il mondo', Mowmag.it
“I am pleased that war veterans are integral to this portfolio. The new Constitution clearly outlines the vital contributions made by war veterans and collaborators, emphasizing the need to address their concerns as thoroughly as possible.”
Oppah Muchinguri (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The presidency deeply mourns former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, as he served the country as a commander, and a hero of the great October War. Mubarak was commander of the Air Forces during the war that restored dignity and pride to the Arab nation”
Lamis Gaber (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Surely we don’t want to be counted when there’s a war on water, so there must be a reference that says we did our part to save the continent from going to war due to lack of access to water”
Pemmy Majodina (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the end, I want to say that Nako Spiro, this crime shocked him a lot and together with other important issues of the War and after the war, made him reflect on Enver Hoxha and Miladin, on the Communist Party, on communism as a doctrine and as a realized system in the form of communist dictatorship.”
Liri Belishova (1923–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did not know that Ramizeja was engaged to Misto Mamen and I did not hear anything during the War and after it. The author brings this out because Nexhmije Hoxha and Luan Omari wrote that Ramizeja cried a lot when Mistua was killed. But, we have cried a lot for Misto and for the other comrades, even more so for those whom the organization and the war had connected us the most.”
Liri Belishova (1923–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is truly time to heal our traumatized war-burdened souls. Hence, my straight-up answer is we have no choice but to believe in this peace agreement because war is not an option.”
Suzanne Jambo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“there had been considerable controversy over the Ministry of Energy and Mining when the Government of National Unity was being formed. The oil industry had been developed during the civil war as a means to finance that war, at great human cost, and military concerns had dictated the structure of the industry.”
Martha Chol Luak wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By focusing on the entitlements of collectivities (notably nation states) as opposed to the well-being of individuals, the just war theory frames a rationale for war which omits the central moral issue...whether the massive, systematic and deliberate killing of human beings can ever be justified.”
Robert L. Holmes (born 1935) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert L. Holmes, Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence, (2017) p. xvii
“A law was made... allowing every person who owned twenty negroes to go home. It gave us the blues; we wanted twenty negroes. Negro property suddenly became very valuable, and there was raised the howl of "rich man's war, poor man's fight." The glory of the war, the glory of the South, the glory and the pride of our volunteers had no charms for the conscript.”
Samuel R. Watkins (1839–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cruel war—war at home, and in the perspective distance a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Cæsar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.”
Caleb Cushing (1800–1879) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter from Bangor, Maine (January, 1860); reported in The Historical Magazine, vol. 5, no. 10 (October, 1861), p. 313
“War can never more be considered a means of resolving conflicts. Yet war, when it occurs, can only be won through peace, and peace won through negotiations, dialogue and reconciliation.”
Francis Assisi Chullikatt (born 1953) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Holy See to the UN: there can be no military solution in Syria, it is necessary to start negotiations (25 July 2013) Fides News Agency
“We are challenging their ideas of war. I ask them ‘What are you going to do after the war? Even if by then you are 30, 40, 50, 60?”
Asma Khalifa (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The war divided our country, but the hope for reunification must never disappear. — Taken from a public statement issued after the end of the war.”
Trần Thiện Khiêm (1925–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They wanted peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it. They did not learn then, and have not learned since, that war only breeds war.”
Norman Davies (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was born a racist, I never could see the sense of mixing of blacks and whites, It's highly indecent. I've always believed in the establishment of an all-white America. What we know is coming is race war. Race war is just around the corner in historical terms. We expect there will be a serious American defeat in Vietnam because of the administration's no-win policy.”
Matt Koehl (1935–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the UK world war one is a selling point; in the US it's more an obstacle. In the UK we live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one; a lot of people see it as a turning point for the empire and it looms larger in the consciousness.”
Alice Winn (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It must never be forgotten that the primary test that every people must face is whether it is strong enough to survive. Its fate may well be decided by war, and the issue of a war may hinge simply on how many men it can mass on its side of the struggle. In this light, birth control is seen to be the knife by which civilized White man is cutting his own throat.”
William Gayley Simpson (1892–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 619, quoted in Tenold (2018), p. 123
“In 1928 Edmund Blunden's was widely praised for its lyrical, approach. Sassoon's , also published in 1928, set the scene for the contrast between an idyllic, pre-war world and the savagery of war explored in his .”
Miranda Seymour (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I still remember a press conference in Amman with King Hussein of Jordan during the first Gulf War. I wanted to ask the king why he had grown a beard, but I was afraid it was a stupid question and didn't raise my hand. A colleague asked the question shortly afterwards and the king smiled and replied that it was to mask irritation caused by the stress of war. I was ashamed of my self-sabotage.”
Lilli Gruber (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“World War III would begin the moment Russian tanks arrived in Kiev and at the borders of Europe. Preventing them from arriving is the only way to stop World War III.”
Guido Crosetto (born 1963) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Guerra in Ucraina, Crosetto: "Con tank russi a Kiev terza guerra mondiale", tg24.sky, 27 January 2023
“I come from a world of war planning... of constant, prudent planning.... where you can't just play defense only. There's no such thing as winning, in any operation or in any war, by just playing defense. What we owe the country is a strategy that does more than play defense.”
Elissa Slotkin (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After the insurrection of 1898, and the Spanish-American War that followed, the people suffered greatly, not only from the evils of war, but also from the loss of their cattle and horses by epidemics. Many of their churches were destroyed, not only by the insurrectos, but also by United States troops. The chief evil, however, was the lack of priests.”
Thomas Augustine Hendrick (1849–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diocese of Cebú (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
“Let us be under no illusion; military forces today are not designed to wage war; their purpose is to prevent it. There will be no campaigns like the old ones, with victory at the end of a long and balanced struggle; total war today can only mean total destruction.”
Lauris Norstad (1907–1988) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Force V: The history of Britain's airborne deterrent, by Andrew Brookes. Jane's Publishing Co Ltd; First Edition 1 Jan. 1982, , p.1.
“As long as we have not won the war on racism in this country, we have not won the war on hair policies”
Zulaikha Patel (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although the assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, it was not the historical cause. ... The implication is that the war was, if not inevitable, at least impending, so that the assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.”
J. Bowyer Bell (1931–2003) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Assassin! (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979) p. 44. See Vaso Čubrilović and Andrei Zhelyabov
“So often I have said in the past, when a war is over, the statesmen should not go into conference one with another, but should turn their attention to the infant rooms, since it is from there that comes peace or war.”
Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war.”
François Truffaut (1932–1984) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Gene Siskel. November 11, 1973, Chicago Tribune (pg. 3E)
“Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those measures which are indispensable for securing the ends of the war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war.”
Francis Lieber (1800–1872) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100, April 24, 1863) sec. 1, art. 14
“Inteviewer: You are always ironic... Vanoni: Humour alleviates fear. We need to play, because we are living in tragic times. I feel exhausted and saddened after reading the newspapers and listening to the news. It seems that human beings cannot help but wage war. This is the zeitgeist: the spirit of the times is war. Then we also have Donald Trump, so we're in a bad way...”
Ornella Vanoni (1934–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“International opinion has established the idea that this is a war of religion, a war of the Islamic State. Here we think this is not the case, even if it is true that there are jihadists.”
Alberto Vera Aréjula (born 1957) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop of Nacala: "Terrorists want us to believe that this is a religious war, but it is not" (8 October 2022) Fides News Agency
“Bush and Cheney and company embraced torture and rendition and waged a "war of choice" that left hundreds of thousands of innocents dead and America's reputation worldwide in tatters...We weren't the country of the "greatest" generation. Vietnam had already begun to make that clear. But this was war crimes level stuff and somehow, they all got away with it.”
David Rothkopf (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a curious psychological phenomenon that as soon as a country engages in war, there develops or is created among the masses a frenzy of patriotic excitement which is no index of their pre-war desires. And in the countries where the demonstrations of enthusiasm were greatest, the political influence of the people on the Government was least.”
Sidney Bradshaw Fay (1876–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source