CAPTAIN RONALD SPEIRS, Band of Brothers (2001)
I came from a world where the people believed that the opposite of war was peace. We found out the hard way that the opposite of war is more often slavery.
CAPTAIN APOLLO, Battlestar Galactica, "Experiment in Terra" (1979)
Everybody hates war but nobody ever does anything about it.
KEVIN LEVIN, Ben 10: Alien Force, "Simple" (2009)
The best thing to do about a war is to get out of it.
CAPTAIN PLANET, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, "The Ultimate Pollution" (1991)
War is coming. In foreign fields, war of the whole wide world, with all your boys falling down in the mud. Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?
JEREMY BAINES, Doctor Who, "The Family of Blood" (2007)
These are the last reckonings of war. Their ruins have been blasted, cities have been cleared, new towns and villages and factories have been built. But it is the human wounds that take a long time to heal.
VANDERSON, Foreign Intrigue, "Sleepy Village" (1953)
The cruel meatball of war has rolled onto our laps and ruined our white pants of peace!
MARIO, Futurama, "Anthology of Interest II" (2002)
Violence in its many forms is an involuntary quest for identity, and when that identity is threatened, we have a mandate for war.
DEACON JONES, G vs E (1999)
The goal of war is not to kill. The goal of war is to win. By surrounding the enemy, you would force him only to fight more desperately. If you surround him on three sides and leave him an escape route, he will leave your land and there will less blood spilled on both sides.
KINTANGO, Roots (1977)
Peace, or the appearance of it, is often a prelude to war.
ADMIRAL MARK JAMESON, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Too Short a Season" (1988)
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