War Quotes

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight ... has not the right to exist.

Only thus shall we win the living space that we need.

How important the expansion of our people's living space (Lebensraum)...to permanently secure their food supplies.

Our strength is our quickness and our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter... History sees in him solely the founder of a state... What weak Western European civilization thinks about me is of no consequence.

I have assured him... that once this problem is solved... I shall take no further interest in the Czech state... We don't want any Czechs!

When diplomacy ends, war begins.

I am now fifty. I would rather have the war now than when I am fifty-five or sixty.

We shall only talk of peace when we have won the war. The Jewish capitalist world will not survive the twentieth century.

If we don't take Maikop and Grozny, then I must put an end to the war.

I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

Winning without problem is just victory, but winning with lots of trouble create history.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.